diff --git a/jester.nim b/jester.nim
index 92cb8c7..d2c9d8d 100644
--- a/jester.nim
+++ b/jester.nim
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ type
     of RouteCode:
       data: ResponseData
 
-const jesterVer = "0.5.0"
+const jesterVer = "0.5.1"
 
 proc toStr(headers: Option[RawHeaders]): string =
   return $newHttpHeaders(headers.get(@({:})))
@@ -499,10 +499,10 @@ proc serve*(
       proc (req: httpbeast.Request): Future[void] =
          {.gcsafe.}:
           result = handleRequest(jes, req),
-      httpbeast.initSettings(self.settings.port, self.settings.bindAddr)
+      httpbeast.initSettings(self.settings.port, self.settings.bindAddr, failOnExistingPort = not self.settings.reusePort)
     )
   else:
-    self.httpServer = newAsyncHttpServer(reusePort=self.settings.reusePort)
+    self.httpServer = newAsyncHttpServer(reusePort = self.settings.reusePort)
     let serveFut = self.httpServer.serve(
       self.settings.port,
       proc (req: asynchttpserver.Request): Future[void] {.gcsafe, closure.} =
diff --git a/jester.nimble b/jester.nimble
index eeb64c1..a5881fa 100644
--- a/jester.nimble
+++ b/jester.nimble
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Package
 
-version       = "0.5.0" # Be sure to update jester.jesterVer too!
+version       = "0.5.1" # Be sure to update jester.jesterVer too!
 author        = "Dominik Picheta"
 description   = "A sinatra-like web framework for Nim."
 license       = "MIT"
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ when not defined(windows):
 
 task test, "Runs the test suite.":
   exec "nimble install -y asynctools@#0e6bdc3ed5bae8c7cc9"
-  exec "nim c -r tests/tester"
\ No newline at end of file
+  exec "nim c -r tests/tester"