diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2956213ffe..fead25f4ff 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .DEFAULT_GOAL := build
-RELEASE_VERSION := $(or ${RELEASE_VERSION},"v0.5.1")
+RELEASE_VERSION := $(or ${RELEASE_VERSION},"v0.5.2")
 
 ifeq ($(CI),true)
 DOCKER_TTY_ARG=
diff --git a/docs/src/external/mini-lab/README.md b/docs/src/external/mini-lab/README.md
index cf457d0a48..0f1d4cc683 100644
--- a/docs/src/external/mini-lab/README.md
+++ b/docs/src/external/mini-lab/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ This project can also be used as a template for writing your own metal-stack dep
 ## Requirements
 
 - Linux machine with hardware virtualization support
-- [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) == 2.2.9 with vagrant-libvirt plugin >= 0.1.2 (for running the switch and machine VMs)
+- [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) == 2.2.14 with vagrant-libvirt plugin >= 0.3.0 (for running the switch and machine VMs)
 - kvm as hypervisor for the VMs
   - Ubuntu 20.04:
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ This project can also be used as a template for writing your own metal-stack dep
 
 - [docker](https://www.docker.com/) >= 18.09 (for using kind and our deployment base image)
 - [docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) >= 1.25.4 (for ease of use and for parallelizing control plane and partition deployment)
-- [kind](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases) == v0.8.1 (for hosting the metal control plane on a kubernetes cluster v1.18.2)
+- [kind](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind/releases) == v0.9.0 (for hosting the metal control plane on a kubernetes cluster v1.19.1)
 - [ovmf](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/OVMF) to have a uefi firmware for virtual machines
 - the lab creates a virtual network 192.168.121.0/24 on your host machine, this hopefully does not overlap with other networks you have
 - (recommended) haveged to have enough random entropy (only needed if the PXE process does not work)