diff --git a/lib/bson/version.rb b/lib/bson/version.rb
index 5a396d690..da9fdb07b 100644
--- a/lib/bson/version.rb
+++ b/lib/bson/version.rb
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ module BSON
   #
   # NOTE: this file is automatically updated via `rake candidate:create`.
   # Manual changes to this file may be overwritten by that rake task.
-  VERSION = '5.2.0'
+  VERSION = '5.2.1'
 end
diff --git a/product.yml b/product.yml
index bd2073724..ed9a7c393 100644
--- a/product.yml
+++ b/product.yml
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ description: a fully featured [BSON specification](https://bsonspec.org/) implem
 package: bson
 jira: https://jira.mongodb.org/projects/RUBY
 version:
-  number: 5.2.0
+  number: 5.2.1
   file: lib/bson/version.rb
diff --git a/spec/shared b/spec/shared
deleted file mode 160000
index 6b1158f69..000000000
--- a/spec/shared
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 6b1158f69f7a23345259223bc305393b86e9ab3e
diff --git a/spec/shared b/spec/shared
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..36ddfef2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/shared
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/Users/jamis/Work/mongo-ruby-spec-shared
\ No newline at end of file