diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2b910239ef6369406691e91db35cd8fc25ef2205..bef1877ae77aa8e819c594359c62c3a0008cb42f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ the future development of Gluon.
 
 Please refrain from using the `master` branch for anything else but development purposes!
 Use the most recent release instead. You can list all relaseses by running `git branch -a`
-and switch to one by running `git checkout v2016.2.5 && make update`.
+and switch to one by running `git checkout v2016.2.6 && make update`.
 
 If you're using the autoupdater, do not autoupdate nodes with anything but releases.
 If you upgrade using random master commits the nodes *will break* eventually.
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 263a81d7f09ea27b01a731ab20e9fbb7a62c5530..7f16e7e5d328b241edddb4c64f28a6442b3e836c 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -47,16 +47,16 @@ master_doc = 'index'
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = 'Gluon'
-copyright = '2015-2016, Project Gluon'
+copyright = '2015-2017, Project Gluon'
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '2016.2.5'
+version = '2016.2.6'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2016.2.5'
+release = '2016.2.6'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/docs/site-example/site.conf b/docs/site-example/site.conf
index d2f8248769cc11f2daf693a5418dd08928da5659..297c6c9774749e3cd098b528a2e4c055719f776e 100644
--- a/docs/site-example/site.conf
+++ b/docs/site-example/site.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--- This is an example site configuration for Gluon v2016.2.5
+-- This is an example site configuration for Gluon v2016.2.6
 --
 -- Take a look at the documentation located at
 -- http://gluon.readthedocs.org/ for details.
diff --git a/docs/user/getting_started.rst b/docs/user/getting_started.rst
index bde51de7a94c6eec1fd1932c5c88abda5babba8b..28d352eb566c23bac839febe84bef3912d34fce7 100644
--- a/docs/user/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/user/getting_started.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Gluon's releases are managed using `Git tags`_. If you are just getting
 started with Gluon we recommend to use the latest stable release of Gluon.
 
 Take a look at the `list of gluon releases`_ and notice the latest release,
-e.g. *v2016.2.5*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it
+e.g. *v2016.2.6*. Always get Gluon using git and don't try to download it
 as a Zip archive as the archive will be missing version information.
 
 Please keep in mind that there is no "default Gluon" build; a site configuration
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Building the images
 -------------------
 
 To build Gluon, first check out the repository. Replace *RELEASE* with the
-version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2016.2.5*.
+version you'd like to checkout, e.g. *v2016.2.6*.
 
 ::