diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index d0967b7d..815a1734 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+2.6.2 (2015-04-23)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+- Fix regression where compressed data that was sent as chunked data was not
+  properly decompressed. (#2561)
+
 2.6.1 (2015-04-22)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/requests/__init__.py b/requests/__init__.py
index 4174629d..46116bea 100644
--- a/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/__init__.py
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ is at <http://python-requests.org>.
 """
 
 __title__ = 'requests'
-__version__ = '2.6.1'
-__build__ = 0x020601
+__version__ = '2.6.2'
+__build__ = 0x020602
 __author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
 __license__ = 'Apache 2.0'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015 Kenneth Reitz'