diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index a8d953018421916a1e4d2be8eb2b1c7c0c62570e_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ=..d23ed7f280260c81d01b84eb3aececeeba4a4eb0_Q0hBTkdFUy50eHQ= 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Version 2.6.1 released 2012-07-27
+
+* raw_decode() now skips whitespace before the object
+  https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/pull/38
+
 Version 2.6.0 released 2012-06-26
 
 * Error messages changed to match proposal for Python 3.3.1
diff --git a/conf.py b/conf.py
index a8d953018421916a1e4d2be8eb2b1c7c0c62570e_Y29uZi5weQ==..d23ed7f280260c81d01b84eb3aececeeba4a4eb0_Y29uZi5weQ== 100644
--- a/conf.py
+++ b/conf.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '2.6'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.6.0'
+release = '2.6.1'
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used:
diff --git a/index.rst b/index.rst
index a8d953018421916a1e4d2be8eb2b1c7c0c62570e_aW5kZXgucnN0..d23ed7f280260c81d01b84eb3aececeeba4a4eb0_aW5kZXgucnN0 100644
--- a/index.rst
+++ b/index.rst
@@ -418,6 +418,6 @@
       :exc:`JSONDecodeError` will be raised if the given JSON
       document is not valid.
 
-   .. method:: raw_decode(s)
+   .. method:: raw_decode(s[, idx=0])
 
       Decode a JSON document from *s* (a :class:`str` or :class:`unicode`
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@
 
       Decode a JSON document from *s* (a :class:`str` or :class:`unicode`
-      beginning with a JSON document) and return a 2-tuple of the Python
-      representation and the index in *s* where the document ended.
+      beginning with a JSON document) starting from the index *idx* and return
+      a 2-tuple of the Python representation and the index in *s* where the
+      document ended.
 
       This can be used to decode a JSON document from a string that may have
@@ -426,6 +427,7 @@
 
       This can be used to decode a JSON document from a string that may have
-      extraneous data at the end.
+      extraneous data at the end, or to decode a string that has a series of
+      JSON objects.
 
       :exc:`JSONDecodeError` will be raised if the given JSON
       document is not valid.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a8d953018421916a1e4d2be8eb2b1c7c0c62570e_c2V0dXAucHk=..d23ed7f280260c81d01b84eb3aececeeba4a4eb0_c2V0dXAucHk= 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     DistutilsPlatformError
 
 IS_PYPY = hasattr(sys, 'pypy_translation_info')
-VERSION = '2.6.0'
+VERSION = '2.6.1'
 DESCRIPTION = "Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python"
 LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.rst', 'r').read()
 
diff --git a/simplejson/__init__.py b/simplejson/__init__.py
index a8d953018421916a1e4d2be8eb2b1c7c0c62570e_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ==..d23ed7f280260c81d01b84eb3aececeeba4a4eb0_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9fX2luaXRfXy5weQ== 100644
--- a/simplejson/__init__.py
+++ b/simplejson/__init__.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
     $ echo '{ 1.2:3.4}' | python -m simplejson.tool
     Expecting property name: line 1 column 2 (char 2)
 """
-__version__ = '2.6.0'
+__version__ = '2.6.1'
 __all__ = [
     'dump', 'dumps', 'load', 'loads',
     'JSONDecoder', 'JSONDecodeError', 'JSONEncoder',
diff --git a/simplejson/tests/test_decode.py b/simplejson/tests/test_decode.py
index a8d953018421916a1e4d2be8eb2b1c7c0c62570e_c2ltcGxlanNvbi90ZXN0cy90ZXN0X2RlY29kZS5weQ==..d23ed7f280260c81d01b84eb3aececeeba4a4eb0_c2ltcGxlanNvbi90ZXN0cy90ZXN0X2RlY29kZS5weQ== 100644
--- a/simplejson/tests/test_decode.py
+++ b/simplejson/tests/test_decode.py
@@ -81,3 +81,7 @@
         self.assertEqual(
             ({'a': {}}, 9),
             cls(object_pairs_hook=dict).raw_decode("{\"a\": {}}"))
+        # https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/pull/38
+        self.assertEqual(
+            ({'a': {}}, 11),
+            cls().raw_decode(" \n{\"a\": {}}"))