diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d75a8ca30..beb0b1c54 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <release.version>2.5</release.version>
+        <release.version>2.6</release.version>
     </properties>
 
     <distributionManagement>