diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 794d8655..87195d12 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ calling run() directly will now cause a pytest isntance to be run in the backgro
 
 #  0.18.0          Add 'timeout' parameter for http requests (2018-08-24)
 
+##  show            Bump version: 0.17.2 → 0.18.0 (2018-08-24)
+
 ##  0.18.1          Add content type/encoding to uploaded files (2018-09-05)
 
 ##  0.18.2          Fix formatting environment variables in command line global config files (2018-09-21)
@@ -418,3 +420,5 @@ This is technically not a operational change but I'm adding a new tag so it can
 ##  2.3.1           Fix error formatting when including files with curly braces (2023-09-18)
 
 #  2.4.0           Allow using an ext function to create a URL (2023-09-18)
+
+#  2.5.0           Tinctures: a utility for running things before/after stages, able to be specified at test or stage level. (2023-10-22)
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index be8ed3dd..799ac240 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = "1.0"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "2.5.0"
+release = "2.6.0"
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 25a113ac..3655b5d0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ keywords = ["testing", "pytest"]
 
 name = "tavern"
 description = "Simple testing of RESTful APIs"
-version = "2.5.0"
+version = "2.6.0"
 
 dependencies = [
     "PyYAML>=6.0.1,<7",
     "jmespath>=1,<2",
     "jsonschema>=3.2.0,<5",
     "paho-mqtt>=1.3.1,<=1.6.1",
-    "pyjwt>=2.5.0,<3",
+    "pyjwt>=2.6.0,<3",
     "pykwalify>=1.8.0,<2",
     "pytest>=7,<7.3",
     "python-box>=6,<7",
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ target-version = "py38"
 known-first-party = ["tavern"]
 
 [tool.tbump.version]
-current = "2.5.0"
+current = "2.6.0"
 
 regex = '''
   (?P<major>\d+)
diff --git a/tavern/__init__.py b/tavern/__init__.py
index a39782e8..1eca31bf 100644
--- a/tavern/__init__.py
+++ b/tavern/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 """Stop pytest warning about module already imported: PYTEST_DONT_REWRITE"""
-__version__ = "2.5.0"
+__version__ = "2.6.0"