diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ce90dc8b7566787b1a58d98e6982f7f6f10a5760..655ace0f68b7732d5f9410f39d5cef4bbee9c93e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: akima
-Version: 0.5-4
-Date: 2009-06-10
+Version: 0.5-5
+Date: 2010-01-14
 Title: Interpolation of irregularly spaced data
 Author: Fortran code by H. Akima
  R port by Albrecht Gebhardt <albrecht.gebhardt@uni-klu.ac.at>
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 68bfd7236fb60dbe542b3e43e57b5fb1cf03bcc9..982125996fec027023669791d8eead01fe0b1076 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # package/configure.in
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE("akima",0.5-4)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE("akima",0.5-5)
 AC_INIT(src/tripack.f)
 #if you want to use more macros
 #AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])