diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index dc29bf73..2bec858a 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## 2.6.0
+
+### External changes
+
+* Expectation with never cardinality should display deprecation warning (#681) - thanks to @ducmtran for reporting and testing
+
+### Internal changes
+
+* Simplify backtrace related assertions (#680)
+* Remove unused `ExpectationList#match_but_out_of_order` (f2fa9919)
+
 ## 2.5.0
 
 ### External changes
diff --git a/lib/mocha/version.rb b/lib/mocha/version.rb
index 0ac19e54..2d89b904 100644
--- a/lib/mocha/version.rb
+++ b/lib/mocha/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Mocha
-  VERSION = '2.5.0'.freeze
+  VERSION = '2.6.0'.freeze
 end