diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 2d511c40c..bb53d7e1d 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ History
 latest
 ------
 
+
+v0.5.0 (2020-05-15)
+------
+
 Breaking changes:
 - fixed a bug where atmosphere hybrid coordinates were incorrectly marked as cell center variables, and were missing one point
 - `send_buffer` and `recv_buffer` are modified to take in a `callable`, which is more easily serialized than a `numpy`-like module (necessary because we serialize the arguments to re-use buffers), and allows custom specification of the initialization if zeros are needed instead of empty.
+- use remote data for restart conditions
 
 Major changes:
 - Added getters and setters for additional dynamics quantities needed to call an alternative dynamical core
@@ -18,6 +23,8 @@ Minor changes:
 - Internally, get_state uses the new QuantityFactory class to initialize quantities
 - fixed bug in fv3util setup.py which prevented `python setup.py install` from copying submodules
 - fixed bug in dockerfile where gs://vcm-fv3config data was downloaded to incorrect location
+- New hpc dockerfiles
+- aquaplanet configuration
 
 Deprecations:
 - `Quantity.values` is deprecated
diff --git a/external/fv3util b/external/fv3util
index 05c8cc693..ee583efe8 160000
--- a/external/fv3util
+++ b/external/fv3util
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 05c8cc6936026d89d5ed7c00ba1895d081bd0c6b
+Subproject commit ee583efe871a08085761704e81680000886b75e8
diff --git a/fv3gfs/__init__.py b/fv3gfs/__init__.py
index 9ec77b08f..604a0224a 100644
--- a/fv3gfs/__init__.py
+++ b/fv3gfs/__init__.py
@@ -47,4 +47,4 @@
     GridSizer,
 )
 
-__version__ = "0.4.3"
+__version__ = "0.5.0"
diff --git a/lib/external b/lib/external
index 48a75438c..02892aec9 160000
--- a/lib/external
+++ b/lib/external
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 48a75438cba4e4d5c8bf65d8ff1592c62a6bddeb
+Subproject commit 02892aec9c67cab5165a6f5aefc4a18c40b35d69
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 5c45ba11b..01b2dc386 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.4.3
+current_version = 0.5.0
 commit = True
 tag = False
 
@@ -11,14 +11,6 @@ replace = PACKAGE_VERSION = "{new_version}"
 search = __version__ = "{current_version}"
 replace = __version__ = "{new_version}"
 
-[bumpversion:file:external/fv3util/fv3util/__init__.py]
-search = __version__ = "{current_version}"
-replace = __version__ = "{new_version}"
-
-[bumpversion:file:external/fv3util/setup.py]
-search = version="{current_version}"
-replace = version="{new_version}"
-
 [bdist_wheel]
 universal = 1
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 41f505605..527902f61 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # This line only needed if building with NumPy in Cython file.
 from numpy import get_include
 
-PACKAGE_VERSION = "0.4.3"
+PACKAGE_VERSION = "0.5.0"
 
 fv3gfs_build_path_environ_name = "FV3GFS_BUILD_DIR"
 make_command = os.environ.get("MAKE", "make")
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class BuildDirectoryError(Exception):
     "xarray>=0.13.0",
     "netCDF4>=1.4.2",
     "numpy",
-    f"fv3util=={PACKAGE_VERSION}",
+    f"fv3util>=0.5.1",
 ]
 
 setup_requirements = ["cython", "numpy", "jinja2"]
diff --git a/test_docker.sh b/test_docker.sh
index dd405da6d..6590a8ae4 100755
--- a/test_docker.sh
+++ b/test_docker.sh
@@ -12,16 +12,10 @@ pytest ./tests/image_tests/*.py
 
 if [[ "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS" == "" ]]
 then
-    docker run -it $DOCKER_IMAGE bash -c "mpirun --oversubscribe -n 6 pytest /fv3gfs-python/external/fv3util/tests/test_mpi_mock.py"
-    docker run -it $DOCKER_IMAGE bash -c "make -C /fv3gfs-python/external/fv3util test test_mpi"
     docker run -it $DOCKER_IMAGE bash -c "cd /fv3gfs-python; make test"
     docker run -it $DOCKER_IMAGE bash -c "pytest /fv3gfs-python/external/fv3config/tests"
 else
-    docker run -it $DOCKER_IMAGE bash -c "mpirun --allow-run-as-root --oversubscribe -n 6 pytest /fv3gfs-python/external/fv3util/tests/mpi"
 # needed for circleci tests on machine executor, even though we're accessing public data only
-    docker run -v $GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS:$GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS \
-        --env GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS \
-        -it $DOCKER_IMAGE bash -c "make -C /fv3gfs-python/external/fv3util test test_mpi"
     docker run -v $GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS:$GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS \
         --env GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS \
         -it $DOCKER_IMAGE bash -c "cd /fv3gfs-python; make test"