diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 5aba0393..adbbb3c1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2.6.0 (in development)
+2.6.0 (24 August 2023)
 ----------------------
 
 * Pre- and post-text in citations are now supported for the
@@ -19,14 +19,18 @@
 
 * Add test for running the extension on Cython modules (see issue #308).
 
+* Add test for running the extension with autoapi (see issue #319).
+
+* Sphinx versions 2.x (and lower) are no longer supported.
+  New minimum required version of Sphinx is 3.5.
+
 * Running pytest without arguments will now by default skip all marked tests
   that require additional dependencies (currently numpydoc, rinohtype, and
   cython).
 
-* Python 3.6 is EOL and is therefore no longer officially supported.
+* Fix encoding issues when running tests on Windows.
 
-* Sphinx versions 2.x (and lower) are no longer supported.
-  New minimum required version of Sphinx is 3.5.
+* Python 3.6 is EOL and is therefore no longer officially supported.
 
 2.5.0 (22 August 2022)
 ----------------------
diff --git a/src/sphinxcontrib/bibtex/__init__.py b/src/sphinxcontrib/bibtex/__init__.py
index 4b8a7fa0..99797a7d 100644
--- a/src/sphinxcontrib/bibtex/__init__.py
+++ b/src/sphinxcontrib/bibtex/__init__.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def setup(app: Sphinx) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     app.add_role("footcite", FootCiteRole())
 
     return {
-        "version": "2.6.0a7",
+        "version": "2.6.0",
         "env_version": 9,
         "parallel_read_safe": True,
         "parallel_write_safe": True,