diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index a876fe81..223e23ee 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -2,9 +2,16 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [8.6.0] - 2017-03-14
+
+### Added
+
+* Limited support for electron-prebuilt-compile (#608)
+
 ### Changed
 
 * Options formatted in kebab-case (i.e., with hyphens) are available in camelCase, per JavaScript naming standards (#580)
+* rcedit upgraded to 0.8.0
 
 ### Deprecated
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "electron-packager",
-  "version": "8.5.2",
+  "version": "8.6.0",
   "description": "Package and distribute your Electron app with OS-specific bundles (.app, .exe etc) via JS or CLI",
   "main": "index.js",
   "bin": {