diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index b1f5d0b9f1..cf75565ee7 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -282,7 +282,8 @@ namespace :deploy do
   task :git_prepare do |t, args|
     g = Git.open(Dir.getwd())
     version = current_version
-    g.add(VERSION_FILES)
+    to_commit = VERSION_FILES << 'docs/HISTORY.md'
+    g.add(to_commit)
     g.commit "RELEASE #{version}"
     g.add_tag("#{version}")
   end
diff --git a/docs/HISTORY.md b/docs/HISTORY.md
index e5ed9899ef..f14cb4109b 100644
--- a/docs/HISTORY.md
+++ b/docs/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # MongoDB Ruby Driver History
 
+### 1.6.2
+2012-04-05
+
+* Implements socket timeouts via non-blocking IO instead of Timeout module
+which should greately increase performance in highly threaded applications
+* Added ability to authentication via secondary if primary node unavailable
+* Replica set refresh interval now enforces a lower bound of 60 seconds
+* Added documentation for dropping indexes, collections, databases
+* Test output cleanup (...)s unless failure occurs
+
 ### 1.6.1
 2012-03-07
 
diff --git a/ext/cbson/version.h b/ext/cbson/version.h
index 0326ab7427..265679e5a8 100644
--- a/ext/cbson/version.h
+++ b/ext/cbson/version.h
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-#define VERSION "1.6.1"
+#define VERSION "1.6.2"
diff --git a/lib/bson/version.rb b/lib/bson/version.rb
index 624f8a1353..57251a936c 100644
--- a/lib/bson/version.rb
+++ b/lib/bson/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module BSON
-  VERSION = "1.6.1"
+  VERSION = "1.6.2"
 end
diff --git a/lib/mongo/version.rb b/lib/mongo/version.rb
index f4f3aa0687..60f34f613e 100644
--- a/lib/mongo/version.rb
+++ b/lib/mongo/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Mongo
-  VERSION = "1.6.1"
+  VERSION = "1.6.2"
 end