diff --git a/release-scripts/update-versions.sh b/release-scripts/update-versions.sh
index ea57e51884..9ae9f260da 100755
--- a/release-scripts/update-versions.sh
+++ b/release-scripts/update-versions.sh
@@ -1,26 +1,27 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env fish
+#!/bin/bash
 
-set MAJOR_VERSION 5
-set MINOR_VERSION 0
-set PATCH_VERSION 80
-set BRANCH 5.1
+set -x
 
-function do_replace
-        git checkout $BRANCH
-	sed -i "s/set(.*$argv""_VERSION_MAJOR .*)/set($argv""_VERSION_MAJOR $MAJOR_VERSION)/g" CMakeLists.txt
-	sed -i "s/set(.*$argv""_VERSION_MINOR .*)/set($argv""_VERSION_MINOR $MINOR_VERSION)/g" CMakeLists.txt
-	sed -i "s/set(.*$argv""_VERSION_PATCH .*)/set($argv""_VERSION_PATCH $PATCH_VERSION)/g" CMakeLists.txt
-        git diff
-        git commit -a -m "Update version number to $MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION.$PATCH_VERSION"
-        git push --set-upstream origin $BRANCH
-end
+MAJOR_VERSION=5
+MINOR_VERSION=1
+PATCH_VERSION=40
+BRANCH=master
 
-cs kdev-python
-do_replace KDEVPYTHON 
-cs kdev-php
-do_replace KDEVPHP
-cs kdevelop
-do_replace KDEVELOP
-cs kdevplatform
-do_replace KDEVPLATFORM
+do_replace() {
+    local project=$1
 
+    echo $MINOR_VERSION
+
+    git checkout $BRANCH
+    sed -i -e "s/set(.*${project}_VERSION_MAJOR .*)/set(${project}_VERSION_MAJOR $MAJOR_VERSION)/g" CMakeLists.txt
+    sed -i -e "s/set(.*${project}_VERSION_MINOR .*)/set(${project}_VERSION_MINOR $MINOR_VERSION)/g" CMakeLists.txt
+    sed -i -e "s/set(.*${project}_VERSION_PATCH .*)/set(${project}_VERSION_PATCH $PATCH_VERSION)/g" CMakeLists.txt
+    git diff CMakeLists.txt
+    git commit CMakeLists.txt -m "Update version number to $MAJOR_VERSION.$MINOR_VERSION.$PATCH_VERSION"
+    git push origin $BRANCH
+}
+
+(cd kdevplatform; do_replace KDEVPLATFORM)
+(cd kdevelop; do_replace KDEVELOP)
+(cd kdev-python; do_replace KDEVPYTHON)
+(cd kdev-php; do_replace KDEVPHP)