diff --git a/infra/VERSION b/infra/VERSION
index 3b6b0a73123..6375359e0a7 100644
--- a/infra/VERSION
+++ b/infra/VERSION
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 # This is solely for helping with version management via our release system
 # as of this writing
 # change
-v0.50.0
+v0.51.0