diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e8a05d3..ecdd69e 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
 
+## 0.6.3 - 2018-09-12
+- fix bug that made rotation still throw on ES6.x
+
 ## 0.6.2 - 2018-09-11
 - fix bug that made rotation/purge throw on ES6.x
 
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index aeed3ee..5608942 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject samplerr "0.6.2"
+(defproject samplerr "0.6.3"
   :description "riemann plugin to aggregate data in a round-robin fashion to elasticsearch"
   :url "http://github.com/samplerr/samplerr"
   :license {:name "EPL-1.0"