diff --git a/README b/README
index 67917aa8..6638c0cb 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 -*- mode: Outline -*-
 
-This is version 0.95 of the unwind library.  At the moment, only the
+This is version 0.96 of the unwind library.  At the moment, only the
 IA-64 Linux (IPF Linux) platform is fully supported.  Some very basic
 support for x86 and HP-UX/IPF exists also.  However, the x86 support
 is based purely on the frame-chain and does not use unwind
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 00c8760d..658a02b2 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT(libunwind, 0.95, libunwind@linux.hpl.hp.com)
+AC_INIT(libunwind, 0.96, libunwind@linux.hpl.hp.com)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/backtrace.c)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux)
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM