diff --git a/INSTALL.adoc b/INSTALL.adoc
index c27b1f8da..74c3d2012 100644
--- a/INSTALL.adoc
+++ b/INSTALL.adoc
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Download a tarball from https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases[] or clone the Tig
 repository https://github.com/jonas/tig[git://github.com/jonas/tig.git].
 
 The latest version is:
-https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.5/tig-2.5.5.tar.gz[tig-2.5.5]
-https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.5/tig-2.5.5.tar.gz.sha256[(sha256)]
+https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.6/tig-2.5.6.tar.gz[tig-2.5.6]
+https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.6/tig-2.5.6.tar.gz.sha256[(sha256)]
 
 *Note:* Do not use the tar.gz file for version 2.0 because it will fail
 to compile due to issue https://github.com/jonas/tig/pull/283[#283] and
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 621b2e1c0..5061e4442 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # The last tagged version. Can be overridden either by the version from
 # git or from the value of the DIST_VERSION environment variable.
-VERSION	= 2.5.5
+VERSION	= 2.5.6
 
 all:
 
diff --git a/NEWS.adoc b/NEWS.adoc
index a14162236..b49984f01 100644
--- a/NEWS.adoc
+++ b/NEWS.adoc
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
-master
-------
+tig-2.5.6
+---------
 
 Bug fixes:
+
  - Fix `:goto <tag>`. (#1178)
  - Fix typo in ui.c.
- - Revert terminal hacks and workarounds. (#1180, #1182)
+ - Revert terminal hacks and workarounds. (#748, #943, #1180, #1182)
  - Fix opening of an ambiguous ref in refs view.
  - Fix search when view is loading.
  - Use the full width for diffstat in the stage view.
@@ -16,6 +17,12 @@ Bug fixes:
  - Fix navigation in split tree view.
  - Enable textconv in the stage view.
  - Enable textconv in the blame view and fix blame -L. (#978, #1189)
+ - Update lineno for untracked files. (#1192)
+ - Fix alignment of transliterated text. (#1195)
+ - Fix word diff in the stage, stash and blame views. (#1207)
+ - Fix reading the value of status.showUntrackedFiles. (#1211)
+ - Honor commit_title:no in view settings.
+ - Fix segfault with PCRE.
 
 tig-2.5.5
 ---------