diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 16739985..58f0a8a2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-18/12/20 started 8.10.5
-- fix potential /0 in animated webp load [lovell]
+22/12/20 start 8.10.6
 - don't seek on bad file descriptors [kleisauke]
 - check for null memory sources [kleisauke]
 
+18/12/20 started 8.10.5
+- fix potential /0 in animated webp load [lovell]
+
 14/12/20 started 8.10.4
 - fix spng detection
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4e38020e..62971591 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # also update the version number in the m4 macros below
 
-AC_INIT([vips], [8.10.5], [vipsip@jiscmail.ac.uk])
+AC_INIT([vips], [8.10.6], [vipsip@jiscmail.ac.uk])
 # required for gobject-introspection
 AC_PREREQ(2.62)
 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 # user-visible library versioning
 m4_define([vips_major_version], [8])
 m4_define([vips_minor_version], [10])
-m4_define([vips_micro_version], [5])
+m4_define([vips_micro_version], [6])
 m4_define([vips_version],
           [vips_major_version.vips_minor_version.vips_micro_version])
 
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ VIPS_VERSION_STRING=$VIPS_VERSION-`date -u -r $srcdir/ChangeLog`
 #   binary interface changes not backwards compatible?: reset age to 0
 
 LIBRARY_CURRENT=54
-LIBRARY_REVISION=6
+LIBRARY_REVISION=7
 LIBRARY_AGE=12
 
 # patched into include/vips/version.h