diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 9414dd7a..94baa1ab 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 # Liquid Change Log
 
+## 5.6.1 2025-01-07
+
+Add `omit_blank_nodes` parse option to skip blank nodes in the AST (#1870) [Michael Go]
+
 ## 5.6.0 (unreleased)
 
 ### Fixes
 
 * Fix Tokenizer to handle null source value (#1873) [Bahar Pourazar]
 
-
 ## 5.5.0 2024-03-21
 
 Please reference the GitHub release for more information.
diff --git a/lib/liquid/version.rb b/lib/liquid/version.rb
index 52831e7b..7c3004e5 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/version.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/version.rb
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module Liquid
-  VERSION = "5.6.0"
+  VERSION = "5.6.1"
 end