diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 38b1bc7..687e56b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ authors = ["Andre Bogus <bogusandre@gmail.de>", "Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws
 description = "count occurrences of a given byte, or the number of UTF-8 code points, in a byte slice, fast"
 edition = "2018"
 name = "bytecount"
-version = "0.6.7"
+version = "0.6.8"
 license = "Apache-2.0/MIT"
 repository = "https://github.com/llogiq/bytecount"
 categories = ["algorithms", "no-std"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 12301e9..4eae47d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The [newlinebench](https://github.com/llogiq/newlinebench) repository has furthe
 
 To use bytecount in your crate, if you have [cargo-edit](https://github.com/killercup/cargo-edit), just type
 `cargo add bytecount` in a terminal with the crate root as the current path. Otherwise you can manually edit your
-`Cargo.toml` to add `bytecount = 0.6.7` to your `[dependencies]` section.
+`Cargo.toml` to add `bytecount = 0.6.8` to your `[dependencies]` section.
 
 In your crate root (`lib.rs` or `main.rs`, depending on if you are writing a
 library or application), add `extern crate bytecount;`. Now you can simply use