diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index a966a202894fb8fbe5e0cbf3494cc558f606af7b_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ=..c1847083a8ba953e88d30cda674df89dc054a392_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ= 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Version 3.6.5 released 2014-10-24
+
+* Importing bug fix for reference leak when an error occurs during
+  dict encoding
+  https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/issues/109
+
 Version 3.6.4 released 2014-09-29
 
 * Important bug fix for dump when only sort_keys is set
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index a966a202894fb8fbe5e0cbf3494cc558f606af7b_Y29uZi5weQ==..c1847083a8ba953e88d30cda674df89dc054a392_Y29uZi5weQ== 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '3.6'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '3.6.4'
+release = '3.6.5'
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a966a202894fb8fbe5e0cbf3494cc558f606af7b_c2V0dXAucHk=..c1847083a8ba953e88d30cda674df89dc054a392_c2V0dXAucHk= 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     DistutilsPlatformError
 
 IS_PYPY = hasattr(sys, 'pypy_translation_info')
-VERSION = '3.6.4'
+VERSION = '3.6.5'
 DESCRIPTION = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python"
 
 with open('README.rst', 'r') as f:
diff --git a/simplejson/__init__.py b/simplejson/__init__.py
index a966a202894fb8fbe5e0cbf3494cc558f606af7b_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ==..c1847083a8ba953e88d30cda674df89dc054a392_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ== 100644
--- a/simplejson/__init__.py
+++ b/simplejson/__init__.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
     Expecting property name: line 1 column 3 (char 2)
 """
 from __future__ import absolute_import
-__version__ = '3.6.4'
+__version__ = '3.6.5'
 __all__ = [
     'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
     'JSONDecoder', 'JSONDecodeError', 'JSONEncoder',