diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 0566013..a614e08 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 0.6.8 (2024-09-05)
 ------------------
 
-- Fix issue with object deallocation in particular Windows builds (#167)
+- Fix object deallocation bug that caused a crash in rare cases (#167)
 
 0.6.7 (2024-08-06)
 ------------------
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 85a76d8..52f3ff5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ authors = [
     {name = "Arie Bovenberg", email = "a.c.bovenberg@gmail.com"},
 ]
 readme = "README.md"
-version = "0.6.8rc1"
+version = "0.6.8"
 description = "Modern datetime library for Python, written in Rust"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 classifiers = [
diff --git a/pysrc/whenever/_pywhenever.py b/pysrc/whenever/_pywhenever.py
index 773f03f..975083a 100644
--- a/pysrc/whenever/_pywhenever.py
+++ b/pysrc/whenever/_pywhenever.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #   - It saves some overhead
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "0.6.8rc1"
+__version__ = "0.6.8"
 
 import enum
 import re