diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index f86a05d4781..6d4be9324a1 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changes
 
+## 0.5.6 (2018-04-24)
+
+* Make flate2 crate optional #200
+
+
 ## 0.5.5 (2018-04-24)
 
 * Fix panic when Websocket is closed with no error code #191
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e6c241f8bf9..425ec701fb2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "actix-web"
-version = "0.5.5"
+version = "0.5.6"
 authors = ["Nikolay Kim <fafhrd91@gmail.com>"]
 description = "Actix web is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust."
 readme = "README.md"