diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index b42c08c..1a773fa 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changes
 =======
 
-Next release
-------------
+0.9.6 (2012-02-14)
+------------------
 
 - No longer runs on Python 2.4 or 2.5.  Python 2.6+ is now required.
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index ab4ba59..2348794 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ copyright = '2010, Agendaless Consulting <pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com>'
 # other places throughout the built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.9.5'
+version = '0.9.6'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 release = version
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0df5447..5c8671f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ except:
 requires = ['translationstring']
 
 setup(name='colander',
-      version='0.9.5',
+      version='0.9.6',
       description=('A simple schema-based serialization and deserialization '
                    'library'),
       long_description=README + '\n\n' +  CHANGES,