diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 566b471..a5216bf 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-t
 Release notes
 -------------
 
+2.6.1 (08 Feb 2015)
++++++++++++++++++++
+
+Fixing things that were broken in 2.6.0:
+
+- Fix issue #31 - bigint on 32-bit
+- Fix issue #32 - register_type and unicode
+
+
 2.6.0 (24 Jan 2015)
 +++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/psycopg2cffi/__init__.py b/psycopg2cffi/__init__.py
index 5bb8bc0..62cdc9c 100644
--- a/psycopg2cffi/__init__.py
+++ b/psycopg2cffi/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from psycopg2cffi._impl.exceptions import *
 from psycopg2cffi._impl.typecasts import BINARY, DATETIME, NUMBER, ROWID, STRING
 
-__version__ = '2.6.0'
+__version__ = '2.6.1'
 apilevel = '2.0'
 paramstyle = 'pyformat'
 threadsafety = 2