diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 50fc8802251a88..93d925e1a73482 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,80 @@
-2011.08.26, Version 0.5.5 (unstable)
+2011.09.08, Version 0.5.6 (unstable)
+
+* #345, #1635, #1648 Documentation improvements (Thomas Shinnick,
+  Abimanyu Raja, AJ ONeal, Koichi Kobayashi, Michael Jackson, Logan Smyth,
+  Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* #650 Improve path parsing on windows (Bert Belder)
+
+* #752 Remove headers sent check in OutgoingMessage.getHeader()
+  (Peter Lyons)
+
+* #1236, #1438, #1506, #1513, #1621, #1640, #1647 Libuv-related bugs fixed
+  (Jorge Chamorro Bieling, Peter Bright, Luis Lavena, Igor Zinkovsky)
+
+* #1296, #1612 crypto: Fix BIO's usage. (Koichi Kobayashi)
+
+* #1345 Correctly set socket.remoteAddress with libuv backend (Bert Belder)
+
+* #1429 Don't clobber quick edit mode on windows (Peter Bright)
+
+* #1503 Make libuv backend default on unix, override with `node --use-legacy`
+
+* #1565 Fix fs.stat for paths ending with \ on windows (Igor Zinkovsky)
+
+* #1568 Fix x509 certificate subject parsing (Koichi Kobayashi)
+
+* #1586 Make socket write encoding case-insensitive (Koichi Kobayashi)
+
+* #1591, #1656, #1657 Implement fs in libuv, remove libeio and pthread-win32
+  dependency on windows (Igor Zinkovsky, Ben Noordhuis, Ryan Dahl,
+  Isaac Schlueter)
+
+* #1592 Don't load-time link against CreateSymbolicLink on windows
+  (Peter Bright)
+
+* #1601 Improve API consistency when dealing with the socket underlying a HTTP
+  client request (Mikeal Rogers)
+
+* #1610 Remove DigiNotar CA from trusted list (Isaac Schlueter)
+
+* #1617 Added some win32 os functions (Karl Skomski)
+
+* #1624 avoid buffer overrun with 'binary' encoding (Koichi Kobayashi)
+
+* #1633 make Buffer.write() always set _charsWritten (Koichi Kobayashi)
+
+* #1644 Windows: set executables to be console programs (Peter Bright)
+
+* #1651 improve inspection for sparse array (Koichi Kobayashi)
+
+* #1672 set .code='ECONNRESET' on socket hang up errors (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* Add test case for foaf+ssl client certificate (Niclas Hoyer)
+
+* Added RPATH environment variable to override run-time library paths
+  (Ashok Mudukutore)
+
+* Added TLS client-side session resumption support (Sean Cunningham)
+
+* Added additional properties to getPeerCertificate (Nathan Rixham,
+  Niclas Hoyer)
+
+* Don't eval repl command twice when an error is thrown (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* Improve util.isDate() (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* Improvements in libuv backend and bindings, upgrade libuv to
+  bd6066cb349a9b3a1b0d87b146ddaee06db31d10
+
+* Show warning when using lib/sys.js (Maciej Malecki)
+
+* Support plus sign in url protocol (Maciej Malecki)
+
+* Upgrade V8 to 3.6.2
+
+
+2011.08.26, Version 0.5.5 (unstable), d2d53d4bb262f517a227cc178a1648094ba54c20
 
 * typed arrays, implementation from Plesk
 
diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html
index 97c78e2865fb26..f069c96d2913da 100644
--- a/doc/index.html
+++ b/doc/index.html
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
         <li><a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/ChangeLog">ChangeLog</a></li>
         <li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.11/api">v0.4.11 docs</a></li>
-        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/api">v0.5.5 docs</a></li>
+        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.6/api">v0.5.6 docs</a></li>
         <br/>
         <li><a href="https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki">Wiki</a></li>
         <li><a href="http://blog.nodejs.org/">Blog</a></li>
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ <h2 id="download">Download</h2>
         <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.11/api/index.html">Documentation</a>
       </ul>
 
-      <p>2011.08.12 v0.5.5 (unstable)
+      <p>2011.08.12 v0.5.6 (unstable)
       <ul class="release">
-        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node-v0.5.5.tar.gz"><code>node-v0.5.5.tar.gz</code> Source code</a>
-        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.5/node.exe"><code>node.exe</code> Windows executable</a>
-        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.5/api/index.html">Documentation</a>
+        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.6/node-v0.5.6.tar.gz"><code>node-v0.5.6.tar.gz</code> Source code</a>
+        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.6/node.exe"><code>node.exe</code> Windows executable</a>
+        <li><a href="http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.6/api/index.html">Documentation</a>
       </ul>
 
 
diff --git a/doc/template.html b/doc/template.html
index b2eef289018fbe..b13532384fcdbb 100644
--- a/doc/template.html
+++ b/doc/template.html
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <html>
 <head>
   <meta charset="UTF-8" />
-  <title>{{section}}Node.js v0.5.5 Manual &amp; Documentation</title>
+  <title>{{section}}Node.js v0.5.6 Manual &amp; Documentation</title>
   <link type="image/x-icon" rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
   <link type="image/x-icon" rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/style.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 <body>
   <div id="container">
     <header>
-      <h1>Node.js v0.5.5 Manual &amp; Documentation</h1>
+      <h1>Node.js v0.5.6 Manual &amp; Documentation</h1>
       <div id="gtoc">
         <p><a href="index.html">Index</a> | <a href="all.html">View on single page</a></p>
       </div>
diff --git a/src/node_version.h b/src/node_version.h
index a8687bfc731097..a2ed497379957b 100644
--- a/src/node_version.h
+++ b/src/node_version.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 0
 #define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 5
 #define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 6
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)