From 1aa8fb8d723b3efdf9f468b3407698d1cc0081e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Atanas Trayanov <atanas.l.trayanov@nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 16:17:17 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fixes #3232. Properly initialized per-cell counters

---
 CHANGELOG.md               | 1 +
 generic/GenericCplComp.F90 | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4458f034c4c7..4b18348a47b1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Changed
 
 ### Fixed
+Properly nullified the pointers to the per-grid-cell counters
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/generic/GenericCplComp.F90 b/generic/GenericCplComp.F90
index 953c4e2c781f..f4485057cba7 100644
--- a/generic/GenericCplComp.F90
+++ b/generic/GenericCplComp.F90
@@ -326,6 +326,12 @@ subroutine Initialize(CC, SRC, DST, CLOCK, RC)
     _VERIFY(STATUS)
     allocate(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT (NCPLS), STAT=STATUS)
     _VERIFY(STATUS)
+    DO J = 1, NCPLS
+       NULLIFY(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT(J)%ptr1c)
+       NULLIFY(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT(J)%ptr2c)
+       NULLIFY(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT(J)%ptr3c)
+       NULLIFY(STATE%ARRAY_COUNT(J)%ptr4c)
+    END DO
     allocate(STATE%ACCUM_RANK (NCPLS), STAT=STATUS)
     _VERIFY(STATUS)
     allocate(STATE%couplerType(NCPLS), STAT=STATUS)

From 8ec3c89d432eb89e6cd4edd1155443a5972fcb9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Thompson <matthew.thompson@nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:48:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Prepare for 2.51.1 Release

---
 CHANGELOG.md   | 7 ++++++-
 CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4b18348a47b1..9b6d16ab7f2f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,12 +12,17 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Changed
 
 ### Fixed
-Properly nullified the pointers to the per-grid-cell counters
 
 ### Removed
 
 ### Deprecated
 
+## [2.51.1] - 2024-12-10
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Properly nullified the pointers to the per-grid-cell counters
+
 ## [2.51.0] - 2024-12-06
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index cfbafb015abd..b253423a3289 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ endif ()
 
 project (
   MAPL
-  VERSION 2.51.0
+  VERSION 2.51.1
   LANGUAGES Fortran CXX C)  # Note - CXX is required for ESMF
 
 # Set the possible values of build type for cmake-gui