diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0c81df9c8..fd812f473 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ All notable changes to the "robotcode" extension will be documented in this file
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+##  0.2.6
+
 - update readme
 - semantic tokens now iterate over nodes
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f515d6eca..5f3825249 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   "description": "Robot Framework support for Visual Studio Code",
   "icon": "images/icon.png",
   "publisher": "d-biehl",
-  "version": "0.2.5",
+  "version": "0.2.6",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "https://github.com/d-biehl/robotcode"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cf1d6fc61..38a3d094d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "robotcode"
-version = "0.2.5"
+version = "0.2.6"
 description = "Language server,debugger and tools for RobotFramework"
 authors = ["Daniel Biehl <daniel.biehl@imbus.de>"]
 include = ["robotcode/py.typed", "README.md"]
diff --git a/robotcode/_version.py b/robotcode/_version.py
index fe404ae57..01ef12070 100644
--- a/robotcode/_version.py
+++ b/robotcode/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.2.5"
+__version__ = "0.2.6"