diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0bbbc7a..88ddf0e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rust-embed"
-version = "8.5.0"
+version = "8.6.0"
 description = "Rust Custom Derive Macro which loads files into the rust binary at compile time during release and loads the file from the fs during dev"
 readme = "readme.md"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/rust-embed"
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ required-features = ["mime-guess"]
 
 [dependencies]
 walkdir = "2.3.2"
-rust-embed-impl = { version = "8.4.0", path = "impl"}
-rust-embed-utils = { version = "8.4.0", path = "utils"}
+rust-embed-impl = { version = "8.6.0", path = "impl"}
+rust-embed-utils = { version = "8.6.0", path = "utils"}
 
 include-flate = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 actix-web = { version = "4", optional = true }
diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index bfc1611..1edaeb3 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -7,9 +7,17 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
 Thanks to [Mark Drobnak](https://github.com/AzureMarker) for the changelog.
 
+## [8.6.0] - 2025-02-25
+
+- Update include-flate to 0.3 [#246](https://github.com/pyrossh/rust-embed/pull/246). Thanks to [krant](https://github.com/krant)
+- refactor: remove redundant reference and closure [#250](https://github.com/pyrossh/rust-embed/pull/250). Thanks to [hamirmahal](https://github.com/hamirmahal)
+- refactor: replace map().unwrap_or_else(). [#250](https://github.com/pyrossh/rust-embed/pull/255). Thanks to [hamirmahal](https://github.com/hamirmahal)
+- Compatible with Axum 0.7.9 [#253](https://github.com/pyrossh/rust-embed/pull/253). Thanks to [wkmyws](https://github.com/wkmyws)
+- Add allow_missing option to derive macro [#256](https://github.com/pyrossh/rust-embed/pull/256). Thanks to [lirannl](https://github.com/lirannl)
+
+
 ## [8.5.0] - 2024-07-09
 
-- Re-export RustEmbed as Embed [#246](https://github.com/pyrossh/rust-embed/pull/246). Thanks to [krant](https://github.com/krant)
 - Allow users to specify a custom path to the rust_embed crate in generated code[#232](https://github.com/pyrossh/rust-embed/pull/232). Thanks to [Wulf](https://github.com/Wulf)
 - Increase minimum rust-version to v1.7.0.0
 
diff --git a/impl/Cargo.toml b/impl/Cargo.toml
index 34e39c3..2810fe4 100644
--- a/impl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/impl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rust-embed-impl"
-version = "8.5.0"
+version = "8.6.0"
 description = "Rust Custom Derive Macro which loads files into the rust binary at compile time during release and loads the file from the fs during dev"
 readme = "readme.md"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/rust-embed"
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 proc-macro = true
 
 [dependencies]
-rust-embed-utils = { version = "8.4.0", path = "../utils"}
+rust-embed-utils = { version = "8.6.0", path = "../utils"}
 
 syn = { version = "2", default-features = false, features = ["derive", "parsing", "proc-macro", "printing"] }
 quote = "1"
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 6d0bed4..50372f5 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ You can use this to embed your css, js and images into a single executable which
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-rust-embed="8.5.0"
+rust-embed="8.6.0"
 ```
 
 ## Documentation
diff --git a/utils/Cargo.toml b/utils/Cargo.toml
index 05413fe..9964357 100644
--- a/utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "rust-embed-utils"
-version = "8.5.0"
+version = "8.6.0"
 description = "Utilities for rust-embed"
 readme = "readme.md"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/rust-embed"