Bump version to 2.6.1.2.6.1

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b119acd6..47d378c6 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ pull request numbers to the requests at
 <https://github.com/pygments/pygments/pulls>.
 
 
+Version 2.6.1
+-------------
+(released March 8, 2020)
+
+- This release fixes a packaging issue. No functional changes.
+
 Version 2.6
 -----------
 (released March 8, 2020)
diff --git a/pygments/__init__.py b/pygments/__init__.py
index 06a6e561..8525a0e8 100644
--- a/pygments/__init__.py
+++ b/pygments/__init__.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 import sys
 from io import StringIO, BytesIO
 
-__version__ = '2.6.0'
+__version__ = '2.6.1'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext'
 
 __all__ = ['lex', 'format', 'highlight']