diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index ddc2a24..48a5659 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## History
 
+### 0.2.6 (2021-06-29)
+
+- fix: a bug in schema inference where a TypeError is thrown when only a ValueError is currently expected
+
 ### 0.2.5 (2021-06-04)
 
 - fix: prevent auto-converting 0, 0.0, '', etc to null
diff --git a/bin/release_build b/bin/release_build
index 739e456..217193a 100755
--- a/bin/release_build
+++ b/bin/release_build
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+pytest &&
 ./tests/install_test.sh &&
 
 python3 setup.py clean --all
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 127006e..65a1494 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 from setuptools import setup
 
-VERSION = "0.2.5"
+VERSION = "0.2.6"
 
 with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
     long_description = fh.read()