diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt
index 3e6331d..f0924b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt
@@ -35,5 +35,24 @@
  * The exit code of git-fsck did not reflect some types of errors
    found in packed objects, which has been corrected.
 
+ * The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column"
+   (which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices
+
+ * Improve error reporting when SMTP TLS fails.
+
+ * When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not
+   in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the
+   codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed
+   and died.  Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts
+   questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is
+   obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function
+   in non-strict mode.
+
+ * "git symbolic-ref" forgot to report a failure with its exit status.
+
+ * History traversal with "git log --source" that starts with an
+   annotated tag failed to report the tag as "source", due to an
+   old regression in the command line parser back in v2.2 days.
+
 Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
 clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index cbf157b..6668172 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v2.6.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.6.4]
+* link:v2.6.5/git.html[documentation for release 2.6.5]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/2.6.5.txt[2.6.5],
   link:RelNotes/2.6.4.txt[2.6.4],
   link:RelNotes/2.6.3.txt[2.6.3],
   link:RelNotes/2.6.2.txt[2.6.2],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index f2a001f..7ed4820 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.6.4
+DEF_VER=v2.6.5
 
 LF='
 '