diff --git a/gstlal-inspiral/configure.ac b/gstlal-inspiral/configure.ac
index 067bcabf252819e777419a025d79ca212b935560..9a7ada660f89d538baf95c5a855f5dc8af5768b0 100644
--- a/gstlal-inspiral/configure.ac
+++ b/gstlal-inspiral/configure.ac
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 #
 
 
-AC_INIT([gstlal-inspiral],[1.4.2],[gstlal-discuss@ligo.org],[gstlal-inspiral])
-AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (C) 2008--2016 Kipp Cannon])
+AC_INIT([gstlal-inspiral],[1.5.0],[gstlal-discuss@ligo.org],[gstlal-inspiral])
+AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (C) The authors (see source code for details)])
 # a file whose existance can be used to use to check that we are in the
 # top-level directory of the source tree
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([gnuscripts/ltmain.sh])
@@ -246,9 +246,9 @@ CFLAGS="$old_CFLAGS"
 #
 
 
-AC_SUBST([MIN_LAL_VERSION], [6.18.0])
-AC_SUBST([MIN_LALMETAIO_VERSION], [1.3.1])
-AC_SUBST([MIN_LALINSPIRAL_VERSION], [1.7.7])
+AC_SUBST([MIN_LAL_VERSION], [6.19.0])
+AC_SUBST([MIN_LALMETAIO_VERSION], [1.4.0])
+AC_SUBST([MIN_LALINSPIRAL_VERSION], [1.8.0])
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LAL], [lal >= ${MIN_LAL_VERSION} lalmetaio >= ${MIN_LALMETAIO_VERSION} lalsupport lalinspiral >= ${MIN_LALINSPIRAL_VERSION}])
 AC_SUBST([LAL_CFLAGS])
 AC_SUBST([LAL_LIBS])
@@ -257,11 +257,11 @@ AX_PYTHON_MODULE([lal], fatal)
 
 
 #
-# Check for glue and pylal
+# Check for glue
 #
 
 
-AC_SUBST([MIN_GLUE_VERSION], [1.58.0])
+AC_SUBST([MIN_GLUE_VERSION], [1.59.2])
 AX_PYTHON_GLUE()
 
 
@@ -270,8 +270,8 @@ AX_PYTHON_GLUE()
 #
 
 
-AC_SUBST([MIN_GSTLAL_VERSION], [1.3.0])
-AC_SUBST([MIN_GSTLALUGLY_VERSION], [1.4.0])
+AC_SUBST([MIN_GSTLAL_VERSION], [1.4.0])
+AC_SUBST([MIN_GSTLALUGLY_VERSION], [1.5.2])
 PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GSTLAL], [gstlal >= ${MIN_GSTLAL_VERSION}])
 AC_SUBST([GSTLAL_VERSION], [`$PKG_CONFIG --modversion gstlal`])
 AX_GSTLAL_SPLIT_VERSION([GSTLAL_VERSION])
diff --git a/gstlal-inspiral/debian/changelog b/gstlal-inspiral/debian/changelog
index 25615a24c590a8f38d11faebbeb498cdd0b549e2..dc838d657cac2626419c601eb5c36cbbf02fcf1d 100644
--- a/gstlal-inspiral/debian/changelog
+++ b/gstlal-inspiral/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+gstlal-inspiral (1.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * October 2018 open public alerts test
+
+ -- Kipp Cannon <kipp.cannon@ligo.org>  Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:55:34 +0900
+
 gstlal-inspiral (1.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * turn off frame file checksums in hoftcache.py