diff --git a/00-RELEASENOTES b/00-RELEASENOTES
index 59d8741c93fbbab08ea184c7d087d1d628dc2cfe..145629bc7349e2a2499dd6af29624f693dde46d5 100644
--- a/00-RELEASENOTES
+++ b/00-RELEASENOTES
@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ for 2.0.
 CHANGELOG
 ---------
 
+What's new in Redis 2.2.6
+=========================
+
+* Fixed bug #543. If you saw Redis instances crashing on List operations
+  (only happening with a non-default max entry size ziplist setting in
+  redis.conf) it was almost certainly this problem.
+* Fixed a bug with replication where SLAVEOF NO ONE caused a slave to close the
+  connection with all its slaves.
+
 What's new in Redis 2.2.5
 =========================
 
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index be662ce39c8a7f42a70063a9b6f6f95e354d3927..e48fe137fc72f0659e732860428fe129f55ccd74 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define REDIS_VERSION "2.2.5"
+#define REDIS_VERSION "2.2.6"