diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 35c867472..4df278c3a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5) # for add_link_options and implicit target directories.
 project("whisper.cpp" C CXX)
-project("whisper.cpp" VERSION 1.8.5)
+project("whisper.cpp" VERSION 1.8.6)
 include(CheckIncludeFileCXX)
 
 set(SOVERSION 1)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d1680e99b..fe7fa7415 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 [![Conan Center](https://shields.io/conan/v/whisper-cpp)](https://conan.io/center/whisper-cpp)
 [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/whisper.cpp.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/whisper.cpp/)
 
-Stable: [v1.8.1](https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.8.1) / [Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/ggml-org/projects/4/)
+Stable: [v1.8.6](https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.8.6) / [Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/ggml-org/projects/4/)
 
 High-performance inference of [OpenAI's Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper) automatic speech recognition (ASR) model:
 
diff --git a/bindings/javascript/package.json b/bindings/javascript/package.json
index caf12b6dd..1f2f34672 100644
--- a/bindings/javascript/package.json
+++ b/bindings/javascript/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "whisper.cpp",
-  "version": "1.8.5",
+  "version": "1.8.6",
   "description": "Whisper speech recognition",
   "main": "whisper.js",
   "scripts": {