diff --git a/_service b/_service
index a6d89fe..a6eb2b4 100644
--- a/_service
+++ b/_service
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
     <param name="url">https://github.com/openSUSE/release-compare.git</param>
     <param name="scm">git</param>
 
-    <param name="version">0.5.1</param>
-    <param name="revision">0.5.1</param>
+    <param name="version">0.5.2</param>
+    <param name="revision">0.5.2</param>
 
     <param name="extract">release-compare.spec</param>
   </service>
diff --git a/release-compare-0.5.1.obscpio b/release-compare-0.5.1.obscpio
deleted file mode 100644
index bbee6e4..0000000
--- a/release-compare-0.5.1.obscpio
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:45071b4433d610b4f3c7b566718de38447b0215c754e0a422b6a09187682e63f
-size 45578
diff --git a/release-compare-0.5.2.obscpio b/release-compare-0.5.2.obscpio
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..74a48d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release-compare-0.5.2.obscpio
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:af4828f3851d1cf3ebd1175781ff76dcf01b693820e2a088dbda27556418a196
+size 45578
diff --git a/release-compare.changes b/release-compare.changes
index bfc014c..40de360 100644
--- a/release-compare.changes
+++ b/release-compare.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Feb  2 08:12:14 UTC 2021 - Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de>
+
+- update to version 0.5.2
+  * escape backslashes in YAML string
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Feb  1 13:06:15 UTC 2021 - Adrian Schröter <adrian@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/release-compare.obsinfo b/release-compare.obsinfo
index 84c6740..5f00200 100644
--- a/release-compare.obsinfo
+++ b/release-compare.obsinfo
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: release-compare
-version: 0.5.1
-mtime: 1612184574
-commit: 55aa6e4678bc0cf092df99f85e26f4e63be34b85
+version: 0.5.2
+mtime: 1612253338
+commit: e5f4c00214472a822f26e39b6a53fd480d6a8ba3
 
diff --git a/release-compare.spec b/release-compare.spec
index a655f2a..5c47de3 100644
--- a/release-compare.spec
+++ b/release-compare.spec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Summary:        Release Compare Script
 License:        GPL-3.0-or-later
 Group:          Development/Tools/Building
 URL:            https://github.com/openSUSE/release-compare
-Version:        0.5.1
+Version:        0.5.2
 Release:        0
 Source:         %name-%version.tar.xz
 BuildArch:      noarch