v2.19.1
diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 74e3d8f..130ac4e 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -8,8 +8,16 @@
- [Short description of non-trivial change.]
+2.19.1 (2018-06-14)
++++++++++++++++++++
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+- Fixed issue where status_codes.py's ``init`` function failed trying to append to
+ a ``__doc__`` value of ``None``.
+
2.19.0 (2018-06-12)
-++++++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++++++++
**Improvements**
diff --git a/requests/__version__.py b/requests/__version__.py
index 90d7c29..ef61ec0 100644
--- a/requests/__version__.py
+++ b/requests/__version__.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
__title__ = 'requests'
__description__ = 'Python HTTP for Humans.'
__url__ = 'http://python-requests.org'
-__version__ = '2.19.0'
-__build__ = 0x021900
+__version__ = '2.19.1'
+__build__ = 0x021901
__author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
__author_email__ = 'me@kennethreitz.org'
__license__ = 'Apache 2.0'
