diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1da79123..b3fb04fd 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: teal.widgets
 Title: 'shiny' Widgets for 'teal' Applications
-Version: 0.5.0.9006
-Date: 2025-11-28
+Version: 0.5.1
+Date: 2025-12-01
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Dawid", "Kaledkowski", , "dawid.kaledkowski@roche.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("Pawel", "Rucki", , "pawel.rucki@roche.com", role = "aut"),
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 009232ce..94c5cdf5 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-# teal.widgets 0.5.0.9006
+# teal.widgets 0.5.1
+
+### Miscellaneous
+* Improve unit test coverage (#318).
 
 # teal.widgets 0.5.0
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-standard_layout.R b/tests/testthat/test-standard_layout.R
index 7463112b..eed16e03 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-standard_layout.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-standard_layout.R
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ describe("Tests for standard_layout options", {
   it("checks snapshot with encoding and null forms", {
     # Given
     mock_layout <- standard_layout(output = mock_output, encoding = mock_form, forms = NULL)
-    testthat::skip_if_not_installed("withr")
-    withr::local_seed(1)
+    form_html <- gsub("\\s+", " ", trimws(as.character(mock_form)))
+    layout_html <- gsub("\\s+", " ", trimws(as.character(mock_layout)))
     # Then
-    expect_true(grepl(as.character(mock_form), as.character(mock_layout)))
+    expect_true(grepl(form_html, layout_html, fixed = TRUE))
   })
 })