diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 169b386..e8a05d3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This change
 ### Fixed
 - foo
 
+## 0.6.2 - 2018-09-11
+- fix bug that made rotation/purge throw on ES6.x
+
 ## 0.6.1 - 2018-08-23
 - bump spandex dep to 0.6.4
 - fix some typos in README (thanks boernd and brutasse)
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index ffba233..aeed3ee 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject samplerr "0.6.1"
+(defproject samplerr "0.6.2"
   :description "riemann plugin to aggregate data in a round-robin fashion to elasticsearch"
   :url "http://github.com/samplerr/samplerr"
   :license {:name "EPL-1.0"