diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3c6487f5..7affbf08 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [2.6.1] - 2016-02-26
+
 ### Fixed
 - Made sure schemas of an unrecognized type raise a SchemaParseError (not Name error)
 
diff --git a/VERSION.yml b/VERSION.yml
index e9a7eddb..fdff4d8b 100644
--- a/VERSION.yml
+++ b/VERSION.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 major: 2
 minor: 6
-patch: 0
+patch: 1