diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d75099b4..cbbaef21 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 2.5.1 - 2020-02-24
+
+### Changed
+
+- `manylinux1` wheels for 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 are now compliant with the spec by
+not depending on glibc 2.18.
+
 ## 2.5.0 - 2020-02-19
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 9fe0dbdb..bf645486 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ctor"
-version = "0.1.12"
+version = "0.1.13"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cd8ce37ad4184ab2ce004c33bf6379185d3b1c95801cab51026bd271bf68eedc"
+checksum = "47c5e5ac752e18207b12e16b10631ae5f7f68f8805f335f9b817ead83d9ffce1"
 dependencies = [
  "quote",
  "syn",
@@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "libc"
-version = "0.2.66"
+version = "0.2.67"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d515b1f41455adea1313a4a2ac8a8a477634fbae63cc6100e3aebb207ce61558"
+checksum = "eb147597cdf94ed43ab7a9038716637d2d1bf2bc571da995d0028dec06bd3018"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "lock_api"
@@ -247,9 +247,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
-version = "2.3.2"
+version = "2.3.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "53445de381a1f436797497c61d851644d0e8e88e6140f22872ad33a704933978"
+checksum = "3728d817d99e5ac407411fa471ff9800a778d88a24685968b36824eaf4bee400"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "num-traits"
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "orjson"
-version = "2.5.0"
+version = "2.5.1"
 dependencies = [
  "associative-cache",
  "encoding_rs",
@@ -315,9 +315,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "paste"
-version = "0.1.6"
+version = "0.1.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "423a519e1c6e828f1e73b720f9d9ed2fa643dce8a7737fb43235ce0b41eeaa49"
+checksum = "63e1afe738d71b1ebab5f1207c055054015427dbfc7bbe9ee1266894156ec046"
 dependencies = [
  "paste-impl",
  "proc-macro-hack",
@@ -325,9 +325,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "paste-impl"
-version = "0.1.6"
+version = "0.1.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "4214c9e912ef61bf42b81ba9a47e8aad1b2ffaf739ab162bf96d1e011f54e6c5"
+checksum = "6d4dc4a7f6f743211c5aab239640a65091535d97d43d92a52bca435a640892bb"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro-hack",
  "proc-macro2",
@@ -559,9 +559,9 @@ checksum = "a2eb9349b6444b326872e140eb1cf5e7c522154d69e7a0ffb0fb81c06b37543f"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "syn"
-version = "1.0.14"
+version = "1.0.16"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "af6f3550d8dff9ef7dc34d384ac6f107e5d31c8f57d9f28e0081503f547ac8f5"
+checksum = "123bd9499cfb380418d509322d7a6d52e5315f064fe4b3ad18a53d6b92c07859"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2",
  "quote",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 27f63bb1..96de2a68 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "orjson"
-version = "2.5.0"
+version = "2.5.1"
 authors = ["ijl <ijl@mailbox.org>"]
 description = "Fast, correct Python JSON library supporting dataclasses, datetimes, and numpy"
 edition = "2018"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 75d2915f..38c290d7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ support for 64-bit
 file-like objects
 
 orjson supports CPython 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. It distributes wheels for
-Linux, macOS, and Windows. The manylinux1 wheel differs from PEP 513 in
-requiring glibc 2.18, released 2013, or later. orjson does not support PyPy.
+Linux, macOS, and Windows. orjson does not support PyPy.
 
 orjson is licensed under both the Apache 2.0 and MIT licenses. The
 repository and issue tracker is
@@ -632,6 +631,17 @@ ValueError: Parse error at offset 1: The surrogate pair in string is invalid.
 '\ud800'
 ```
 
+To make a best effort at deserializing bad input, first decode `bytes` using
+the `replace` or `lossy` argument for `errors`:
+
+```python
+>>> import orjson
+>>> orjson.loads(b'"\xed\xa0\x80"')
+JSONDecodeError: str is not valid UTF-8: surrogates not allowed
+>>> orjson.loads(b'"\xed\xa0\x80"'.decode("utf-8", "replace"))
+'���'
+```
+
 ### UUID
 
 orjson serializes `uuid.UUID` instances to
diff --git a/src/decode.rs b/src/decode.rs
index 6032de23..c763e5fc 100644
--- a/src/decode.rs
+++ b/src/decode.rs
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ pub fn deserialize(ptr: *mut pyo3::ffi::PyObject) -> PyResult<NonNull<pyo3::ffi:
         data = unsafe { std::str::from_utf8_unchecked(slice) };
     } else {
         return Err(JSONDecodeError::py_err((
-            "Input must be str or bytes",
+            "Input must be bytes, bytearray, or str",
             "",
             0,
         )));