diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6bc2f946c337fd7c7c50ea7f932bcf96674b03a8_c2V0dXAucHk=..0f46b752850d3f0c71385104f42a6c5e0b4ac27b_c2V0dXAucHk= 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     DistutilsPlatformError
 
 IS_PYPY = hasattr(sys, 'pypy_translation_info')
-VERSION = '3.5.3'
+VERSION = '3.6.0'
 DESCRIPTION = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python"
 
 with open('README.rst', 'r') as f: