diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2ce18cd..73a9eb0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.2.6 (October 19th, 2010)
+* version bump since the 0.2.5 win32 binary gems were broken
+
 ## 0.2.5 (October 19th, 2010)
 * fixes for easier Win32 binary gem deployment for targeting 1.8 and 1.9 in the same gem
 * refactor of connection checks and management to avoid race conditions with the GC/threading to prevent the unexpected loss of connections
diff --git a/lib/mysql2.rb b/lib/mysql2.rb
index 757a611..355c27f 100644
--- a/lib/mysql2.rb
+++ b/lib/mysql2.rb
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ require 'mysql2/result'
 #
 # A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby - binding to libmysql
 module Mysql2
-  VERSION = "0.2.5"
+  VERSION = "0.2.6"
 end
diff --git a/mysql2.gemspec b/mysql2.gemspec
index 5cbdefe..a13e9b8 100644
--- a/mysql2.gemspec
+++ b/mysql2.gemspec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = %q{mysql2}
-  s.version = "0.2.5"
+  s.version = "0.2.6"
 
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["Brian Lopez"]