diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 6e4560e..3bf142d 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor
 
 
-## not yet published, version 8.6.1
+## 2020-02-17, version 8.6.1
 
 - Fix #908: editor throwing an exception when switching from `'preview'`
   to `'code'` mode.
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 7710622..ff93e5e 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "jsoneditor",
-  "version": "8.6.0",
+  "version": "8.6.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 1,
   "requires": true,
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 2576e84..d13ac4f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "jsoneditor",
-  "version": "8.6.0",
+  "version": "8.6.1",
   "main": "./index",
   "description": "A web-based tool to view, edit, format, and validate JSON",
   "tags": [