diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fdada5a..406fe8e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## [0.5.0a1](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-utils/tree/0.5.0a1) (2024-11-20)
+## [0.5.1a1](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-utils/tree/0.5.1a1) (2024-11-21)
 
-[Full Changelog](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-utils/compare/0.4.1...0.5.0a1)
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-utils/compare/0.5.0...0.5.1a1)
 
 **Merged pull requests:**
 
-- feat:oauth utils to ovos-utils and deprecate backend-client [\#301](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-utils/pull/301) ([JarbasAl](https://github.com/JarbasAl))
+- fix: remove mycroft-bus-client compat [\#304](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-utils/pull/304) ([JarbasAl](https://github.com/JarbasAl))
+- chore: support newer pyee [\#303](https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-utils/pull/303) ([mikejgray](https://github.com/mikejgray))
 
 
 
diff --git a/ovos_utils/events.py b/ovos_utils/events.py
index cef7c16..93b420a 100644
--- a/ovos_utils/events.py
+++ b/ovos_utils/events.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from inspect import signature
 from typing import Callable, Optional, Union
 
-from ovos_utils.fakebus import Message, FakeBus, dig_for_message
+from ovos_utils.fakebus import FakeMessage as Message, FakeBus, dig_for_message
 from ovos_utils.file_utils import to_alnum
 from ovos_utils.log import LOG
 
diff --git a/ovos_utils/fakebus.py b/ovos_utils/fakebus.py
index d08300f..ff24610 100644
--- a/ovos_utils/fakebus.py
+++ b/ovos_utils/fakebus.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def on_message(self, *args):
             message = args[0]
         else:
             message = args[1]
-        parsed_message = Message.deserialize(message)
+        parsed_message = FakeMessage.deserialize(message)
         try:  # replicate side effects
             from ovos_bus_client.session import Session, SessionManager
             sess = Session.from_message(parsed_message)
@@ -173,12 +173,6 @@ def __instancecheck__(self, instance):
                 return True
         except ImportError:
             pass
-        try:
-            from mycroft_bus_client.message import Message as _MycroftMessage
-            if isinstance(instance, _MycroftMessage):
-                return True
-        except ImportError:
-            pass
         return super().__instancecheck__(instance)
 
 
@@ -192,11 +186,8 @@ def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
             return _M(*args, **kwargs)
         except ImportError:
             pass
-        try:  # some old install that upgraded during migration period
-            from mycroft_bus_client import Message as _M
-            return _M(*args, **kwargs)
-        except ImportError:  # FakeMessage
-            return super().__new__(cls)
+        return super().__new__(cls)
+
 
     def __init__(self, msg_type, data=None, context=None):
         """Used to construct a message object
@@ -339,9 +330,3 @@ def publish(self, msg_type, data, context=None):
 
         return FakeMessage(msg_type, data, context=new_context)
 
-
-class Message(FakeMessage):
-    def __int__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        log_deprecation(f"Import from ovos_bus_client.message directly",
-                        "0.1.0")
-        FakeMessage.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
diff --git a/ovos_utils/messagebus.py b/ovos_utils/messagebus.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 698685f..0000000
--- a/ovos_utils/messagebus.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-from ovos_utils.fakebus import dig_for_message, FakeMessage, Message, FakeBus
diff --git a/ovos_utils/version.py b/ovos_utils/version.py
index 8b3c775..7dc4fa3 100644
--- a/ovos_utils/version.py
+++ b/ovos_utils/version.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # START_VERSION_BLOCK
 VERSION_MAJOR = 0
 VERSION_MINOR = 5
-VERSION_BUILD = 0
-VERSION_ALPHA = 0
+VERSION_BUILD = 1
+VERSION_ALPHA = 1
 # END_VERSION_BLOCK
diff --git a/test/unittests/test_event_scheduler.py b/test/unittests/test_event_scheduler.py
index 5f2dcd7..aa24d69 100644
--- a/test/unittests/test_event_scheduler.py
+++ b/test/unittests/test_event_scheduler.py
@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@
 
 import unittest
 import time
-from pyee import ExecutorEventEmitter
-
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
-from ovos_utils.messagebus import FakeBus
+from ovos_utils.fakebus import FakeBus
 from ovos_bus_client.util.scheduler import EventScheduler, EventSchedulerInterface
 
 
@@ -107,8 +105,6 @@ def test_shutdown(self):
         def f(message):
             print('TEST FUNC')
 
-        bus = ExecutorEventEmitter()
-
         es = EventSchedulerInterface('tester')
         es.set_bus(FakeBus())
         es.set_id('id')
@@ -120,4 +116,4 @@ def f(message):
         es.shutdown()
         # Check that the reference to the function has been removed from the
         # bus emitter
-        self.assertTrue(len(bus._events.get('id:f', [])) == 0)
+        self.assertTrue(len(es.bus.ee._events.get('id:f', [])) == 0)
diff --git a/test/unittests/test_events.py b/test/unittests/test_events.py
index 18c5a5e..ac5a847 100644
--- a/test/unittests/test_events.py
+++ b/test/unittests/test_events.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from time import time
 from unittest.mock import Mock
 
-from ovos_utils.fakebus import FakeBus, Message
+from ovos_utils.fakebus import FakeBus, FakeMessage as Message
 
 
 class TestEvents(unittest.TestCase):