diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ace4694..805566a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ BibTeX:
     author = {The Augraphy Project},
     title = {Augraphy: an augmentation pipeline for rendering synthetic paper printing, faxing, scanning and copy machine processes},
     url = {https://github.com/sparkfish/augraphy},
-    version = {8.2.5}
+    version = {8.2.6}
 }
 ```
 
diff --git a/augraphy/__init__.py b/augraphy/__init__.py
index 771f5f9..61cae2c 100644
--- a/augraphy/__init__.py
+++ b/augraphy/__init__.py
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 from augraphy.default import *
 from augraphy.utilities import *
 
-__version__ = "8.2.5"
+__version__ = "8.2.6"