diff --git a/sentence_transformers/__init__.py b/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
index 00227da0a..cba0de02f 100644
--- a/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
+++ b/sentence_transformers/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "2.6.0"
+__version__ = "2.6.1"
 __MODEL_HUB_ORGANIZATION__ = "sentence-transformers"
 from .datasets import SentencesDataset, ParallelSentencesDataset
 from .LoggingHandler import LoggingHandler
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9d08633df..a26bc96e7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="sentence-transformers",
-    version="2.6.0",
+    version="2.6.1",
     author="Nils Reimers",
     author_email="info@nils-reimers.de",
     description="Multilingual text embeddings",