diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 656891555..5b1bac5a1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+Clutter 1.23.6                                                       2015-08-21
+===============================================================================
+
+  • List of changes since Clutter 1.23.4
+
+    - Require Cogl 1.21.2
+
+    - Prefer the OpenGL 3.x Cogl driver
+    The GL3 driver drops legacy API, and should bring a slight performance
+    improvement, as well as lower memory overhead. If GL3 is not supported,
+    Clutter falls back to the older GL driver transparently.
+
+    - Updated translations
+   Catalan, Indonesian, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Spanish, French, Galician
+
+  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.23.4
+
+    #742678 - gl: Prefer gl3 over the gl driver
+    #746279 - Typo (textues) in translatable string
+    #753895 - Incorrect plural form of child
+
+Many thanks to:
+
+  Adel Gadllah, Alexandre Franke, Anders Jonsson, Andika Triwidada,
+  Aurimas Černius, Carlos Garnacho, Daniel Mustieles, Fran Dieguez,
+  Jordi Mas, Pedro Albuquerque, Sebastian Rasmussen
+
 Clutter 1.23.4                                                       2015-07-22
 ===============================================================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 01f666c63..398cc62c5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # - increase clutter_interface_version to the next odd number
 m4_define([clutter_major_version], [1])
 m4_define([clutter_minor_version], [23])
-m4_define([clutter_micro_version], [5])
+m4_define([clutter_micro_version], [6])
 
 # • for stable releases: increase the interface age by 1 for each release;
 #   if the API changes, set to 0. interface_age and binary_age are used to