diff --git a/README b/README
index 433fb6d3..f841a5bc 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Functionality implemented include:
  - Record Size Limit (RFC 8449)
  - TLS Certificate Compression (RFC 8879)
  - Hybrid ML-KEM key exchage groups (draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe-mlkem-02)
+ - support for Brainpool curves in TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3
 
 
 tlslite-ng aims to be a drop-in replacement for tlslite while providing more
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 95f9985a..3d421d54 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-tlslite-ng version 0.8.0-beta5 (2024-10-18)
+tlslite-ng version 0.8.0-beta6 (2024-11-27)
 
 [![Build Status](https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/tlslite-ng/workflows/GitHub%20CI/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/tlslite-ng/actions?query=workflow%3A%22GitHub+CI%22+branch%3Amaster)
 [![Read the Docs](https://img.shields.io/readthedocs/tlslite-ng)](https://tlslite-ng.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ TLSAsyncioDispatcherMixIn.py.
   of shared secrets (Ganna Starovoytova)
 * fix sending of session ticket extension from the server without
   a ticket (George Pantelakis)
-* add Brainpool IDs for TLS 1.3 from RFC 8734
+* add support for Brainpool curves in TLS 1.3 from RFC 8734
 * add support for compress_certificate extension from RFC 8879
   (George Pantelakis)
 * Fix int_to_bytes and numberToByteArray encoding of 0 with length not
@@ -715,6 +715,8 @@ TLSAsyncioDispatcherMixIn.py.
 * (Experimental) Support for hybrid KEM key exchange groups from
   draft-kwiatkowski-tls-ecdhe-mlkem-02. To work, kyber-py v1.0 library must
   be installed.
+* support for setting a list of supported key exchange groups in the
+  `tls.py server`
 
 0.7.0 - 2017-07-31
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index e83a39bd..744c9b16 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = u'0.8'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'0.8.0-beta5'
+release = u'0.8.0-beta6'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 498271db..022b64a2 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     README = f.read()
 
 setup(name="tlslite-ng",
-      version="0.8.0-beta5",
+      version="0.8.0-beta6",
       author="Alicja Kario",
       author_email="hkario@redhat.com",
       url="https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/tlslite-ng",
diff --git a/tlslite/api.py b/tlslite/api.py
index 1909b9b1..fde5beca 100644
--- a/tlslite/api.py
+++ b/tlslite/api.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 # See the LICENSE file for legal information regarding use of this file.
 
-__version__ = "0.8.0-beta5"
+__version__ = "0.8.0-beta6"
 # the whole module is about importing most commonly used methods, for use
 # by other applications
 # pylint: disable=unused-import