diff --git a/INSTALL.adoc b/INSTALL.adoc
index 74c3d2012..f775b8654 100644
--- a/INSTALL.adoc
+++ b/INSTALL.adoc
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Download a tarball from https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases[] or clone the Tig
 repository https://github.com/jonas/tig[git://github.com/jonas/tig.git].
 
 The latest version is:
-https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.6/tig-2.5.6.tar.gz[tig-2.5.6]
-https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.6/tig-2.5.6.tar.gz.sha256[(sha256)]
+https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.7/tig-2.5.7.tar.gz[tig-2.5.7]
+https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.7/tig-2.5.7.tar.gz.sha256[(sha256)]
 
 *Note:* Do not use the tar.gz file for version 2.0 because it will fail
 to compile due to issue https://github.com/jonas/tig/pull/283[#283] and
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5061e4442..35c130037 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # The last tagged version. Can be overridden either by the version from
 # git or from the value of the DIST_VERSION environment variable.
-VERSION	= 2.5.6
+VERSION	= 2.5.7
 
 all:
 
diff --git a/NEWS.adoc b/NEWS.adoc
index b49984f01..1a4dc72a2 100644
--- a/NEWS.adoc
+++ b/NEWS.adoc
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
+tig-2.5.7
+---------
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+ - Fix running tests as root. (#1224)
+ - Fix parsing of status.showUntrackedFiles. (#1219)
+ - Avoid incorrect history path when $XDG_DATA_HOME is valid. (#1215, #1217)
+
 tig-2.5.6
 ---------