diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 30387a6..40846e4 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+Oct 13, 2013 - v0.5.6  Fixed handling of non-ascii chars in XML boxes.  Fixed
+    some docstring errors in jp2box module.
+
 Oct 03, 2013 - v0.5.5  Fixed pip install error introduced in 0.5.0.  
 
 Sep 24, 2013 - v0.5.4  Fixed test error restricted to v2.0.
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index f847e68..44fc9e0 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ copyright = u'2013, John Evans'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '0.5'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.5.5'
+release = '0.5.6'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/glymur/version.py b/glymur/version.py
index 192859f..af7523e 100644
--- a/glymur/version.py
+++ b/glymur/version.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from .lib import openjp2 as opj2
 
 # Do not change the format of this next line!  Doing so risks breaking
 # setup.py
-version = "0.5.5"
+version = "0.5.6"
 _sv = LooseVersion(version)
 version_tuple = _sv.version