diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.6.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..432f770
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.6.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Git v2.3.6 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.3.5
+------------------
+
+ * "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) used to show byte-by-byte
+   differences, which meant that multi-byte characters can be chopped
+   in the middle.  It learned to pay attention to character boundaries
+   (assuming the UTF-8 payload).
+
+Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code
+clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 8f5220c..085bc34 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:v2.3.5/git.html[documentation for release 2.3.5]
+* link:v2.3.6/git.html[documentation for release 2.3.6]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/2.3.6.txt[2.3.6],
   link:RelNotes/2.3.5.txt[2.3.5],
   link:RelNotes/2.3.4.txt[2.3.4],
   link:RelNotes/2.3.3.txt[2.3.3],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 7e0ccef..3baaa9d 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.3.5
+DEF_VER=v2.3.6
 
 LF='
 '
diff --git a/RelNotes b/RelNotes
index 99d78b7..d92e7b8 120000
--- a/RelNotes
+++ b/RelNotes
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.5.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.6.txt
\ No newline at end of file