diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6429f09..dcdc67d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 This document contains details of the various releases and their release dates.
 Dates are in the format `yyyy-mm-dd`.
 
+## 2.6 - 2016-09-10
+
+This release fixes a bug in the XML generation code that would cause it to get
+stuck in the generation loop. See issue
+<https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/161> and commit
+38284278d542640c3d8300ef15890af93b6df779 for more information.
+
 ## 2.5 - 2016-09-06
 
 This release fixes a bug in the XML parser that would prevent it from parsing
diff --git a/checksum/oga-2.6-java.gem.sha512 b/checksum/oga-2.6-java.gem.sha512
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/checksum/oga-2.6-java.gem.sha512
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+b107dec6aff28640a307ca02661abd5a29a5f0c369422c116bad7a198b11eb9aa9cab90bfe874a0c9fd4391343d4b5589fcbf5b5a0ff557ab520fd83725de9e8
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diff --git a/checksum/oga-2.6.gem.sha512 b/checksum/oga-2.6.gem.sha512
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/checksum/oga-2.6.gem.sha512
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+8c888218a3da5a639df19e042a3e66bea2d5eec5c660bb4f13982eaff0626f80ab2840d0f58bba2a1fe5dce12563b5f73a9f7b15f23b05ff5c87fe4b7f064621
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diff --git a/lib/oga/version.rb b/lib/oga/version.rb
index 34c3539..79138a6 100644
--- a/lib/oga/version.rb
+++ b/lib/oga/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Oga
-  VERSION = '2.5'
+  VERSION = '2.6'
 end # Oga