diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5ac7dad1..819f051b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ set (SOURCE_DIR "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/")
 
 set (BSON_MAJOR_VERSION 0)
 set (BSON_MINOR_VERSION 6)
-set (BSON_MICRO_VERSION 7)
+set (BSON_MICRO_VERSION 8)
 set (BSON_API_VERSION 1.0)
-set (BSON_VERSION 0.6.7)
+set (BSON_VERSION 0.6.8)
 
 set (CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE "${SOURCE_DIR}/COPYING")
 set (CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR ${BSON_MAJOR_VERSION})
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5408e2e1..1b46d9b9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+Libbson 0.6.8
+=============
+
+Quickly following up on the 0.6.6 release is 0.6.8. This release contains
+a couple of bugfixes and more support for older architectures.
+
+On big-endian systems, bson_append_date_time() was not properly converting
+to little-endian. This is now fixed.
+
+We've added support for Sun Pro C Compiler on Solaris 10 and 11. This includes
+support for SPARC systems as well as x86_64. In particular, intrinsics were
+added for the Solaris/SPARC/SunProC combination. If you are running SunProC
+on a non-Solaris platform, a fallback path will be used which is slower than
+native support for atomics. Additionally, bson_gettimeofday() does not fully
+support timezones under SunProC as struct timezone is not defined.
+
+Libbson will now check for GLibc 2.19 to remove various warnings with both
+_GNU_SOURCE and _BSD_SOURCE defined.
+
+Happy Hacking!
+
+
 Libbson 0.6.6
 =============
 
diff --git a/build/autotools/Versions.m4 b/build/autotools/Versions.m4
index c993fe22..278053f2 100644
--- a/build/autotools/Versions.m4
+++ b/build/autotools/Versions.m4
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 m4_define([bson_major_version], [0])
 m4_define([bson_minor_version], [6])
-m4_define([bson_micro_version], [7])
+m4_define([bson_micro_version], [8])
 m4_define([bson_version], [bson_major_version.bson_minor_version.bson_micro_version])
 
 # bump up by 1 for every micro release with no API changes, otherwise