diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e867ced0..61385873 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,42 @@
 NEWS
 ====
 
+2.6.0 - June 1st 2018
+---------------------
+32 commits, 73 files changed, 1920 insertions, 696 deletions
+
+- add inline implementation of lasso_log
+- Choose the Reference transform based on the chosen Signature transform (fixes #10155)
+- add support for C14N 1.1 methods and C14N withComments methods (fixes #4863)
+- remove DGME specific commented out code
+- add docstring on SHA-2 signature method enum
+- tests: silence unused variable warning
+- check node names in lasso_node_impl_init_from_xml() (fixes #47)
+- fix segfault when parsed node has no namespace (#47)
+- do not call xmlSecKeyDuplicate is source key is NULL
+- enable user supplied CFLAGS
+- Fix ecp test validate_idp_list() (fixes #11421)
+- tests: convert log level as string
+- fix definitions of error, critical and warning macros (fixes #12830)
+- jenkins.sh: add V=1
+- add defined for the XML namespace
+- ignore unknown attributes from the xsi: namespace
+- saml-2.0: improve support for free content inside samlp2:Extensions (fixes #18581)
+- debian: initialize stretch packaging with a copy of upstream debian (#21772)
+- replace use of <xmlsec/soap.h> which is deprecated (fixes #18771)
+- fix get_issuer and get_in_response_to
+- route logs from libxml2 and libxmlsec through GLib logging
+- tests: prevent crash in glib caused by abort on recursive logging
+- java: stop setting a bytecode version target
+- add xmlsec_soap.h to Makefile
+- python: route logs for libxml2 and libxmlsec2 to their own logger
+- perl: force use of the in-tree lasso when running tests (fixes #23276)
+- perl: set DESTDIR and PREFIX at Makefile's creation
+- Replace xmlSecSoap functions with lasso implementations
+- add a pem-public-key runtime flag
+- deprecate loading PEM formatted public keys in lasso_xmlsec_load_key_info
+- perl/tests: build Makefile.perl before running the tests
+
 2.5.1 - February 19th 2016
 ---------------------------
 17 commits, 16 files changed, 1096 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e5b37ef3..898468e6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ dnl - interfaces removed -> AGE = 0
 # m = a
 # r = r
 current=`expr $VERSION_MAJOR + $VERSION_MINOR`
-LASSO_VERSION_INFO="15:1:12"
+LASSO_VERSION_INFO="16:0:13"
 AC_SUBST(LASSO_VERSION_INFO)
 
 dnl Compute the minimal supported ABI version for Win32 scripts and resources files.
diff --git a/website/web/doap.rdf b/website/web/doap.rdf
index 66db698e..1d5c60e7 100644
--- a/website/web/doap.rdf
+++ b/website/web/doap.rdf
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
       </SVNRepository>
     </repository>
     <release>
+      <Version>
+        <created>2018-06-01</created>
+        <revision>2.6.0</revision>
+      </Version>
       <Version>
         <created>2016-02-19</created>
         <revision>2.5.1</revision>
diff --git a/website/web/download/index.xml b/website/web/download/index.xml
index 4c39fd46..0810d723 100644
--- a/website/web/download/index.xml
+++ b/website/web/download/index.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 	<p>
 		All our <a href="https://dev.entrouvert.org/releases/lasso/">releases</a>
-		are available through HTTP. The latest is the 2.5.1.
+		are available through HTTP. The latest is the 2.6.0.
 	</p>
 
 	<h1>Binary Downloads</h1>