diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6461968a7..5f249da40 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+Clutter 1.25.6                                                       2016-02-18
+===============================================================================
+
+  • List of changes since Clutter 1.25.4
+
+    - Enable swap throttling for fullscreen windows with GDK
+    Avoids performance penalties with the GDK backend on constrained devices
+    running full screen Clutter and Clutter-GTK applications.
+
+    - Add platform-specific data for the libinput input backend
+    This allows implementing high level functionality when writing Wayland
+    compositors based on Clutter.
+
+    - Translation updates
+    Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish, Slovak, French, Chinese (Taiwan), Galician,
+    Italian
+
+  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.25.4
+
+    #752752 - Patches needed for relative pointer and pointer confinement
+              in mutter
+    #755849 - evdev: Recycle device ids after devices are removed
+
+Many thanks to:
+
+  Jonas Ådahl, Alexander Shopov, Alexandre Franke, Chao-Hsiung Liao,
+  Dušan Kazik, Fran Dieguez, Gábor Kelemen, Milo Casagrande, Piotr Drąg
+
 Clutter 1.25.4                                                       2016-01-21
 ===============================================================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8ca3f9499..df5636e82 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], [25])
-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