diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 4035d1d..64f5b5b 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+0.6.2 2024-01-24
+        - Bump minimal perl version to 5.36 to improve unicode handling.
+        - korapxml2conllu
+            - Use implicit default utf8 encoding instead of explicit de/encodes. Speeds up processing by 10%.
+
 0.6.1 2023-03-22
         - conllu2korapxml:
             - Fix append for filehandle output.
diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 53aadbd..d8816d8 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ WDF19/A0000.10894	2014.08.28	wikipedia ce prete parfaitement à ce genre de decr
 
 * [Marc Kupietz](https://www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/personal/kupietz.html)
 
-Copyright (c) 2021, [Leibniz Institute for the German Language](http://www.ids-mannheim.de/), Mannheim, Germany
+Copyright (c) 2024, [Leibniz Institute for the German Language](http://www.ids-mannheim.de/), Mannheim, Germany
 
 This package is developed as part of the [KorAP](http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/)
 Corpus Analysis Platform at the Leibniz Institute for German Language
diff --git a/script/conllu2korapxml b/script/conllu2korapxml
index 5301c39..3e97fa7 100755
--- a/script/conllu2korapxml
+++ b/script/conllu2korapxml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ my $_COMPRESSION_METHOD = ZIP_CM_DEFLATE;
 my %opts;
 my %processedFilenames;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.6.1';
+our $VERSION = '0.6.2';
 our $VERSION_MSG = "\nconllu2korapxml - v$VERSION\n";
 
 use constant {
diff --git a/script/korapxml2conllu b/script/korapxml2conllu
index 40a06d3..7d9b452 100755
--- a/script/korapxml2conllu
+++ b/script/korapxml2conllu
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ my @extract_metadata_regex;
 
 my $lm_training_data = 0;
 
-our $VERSION = '0.6.1';
+our $VERSION = '0.6.2';
 
 our $VERSION_MSG = "\nkorapxml2conllu - v$VERSION\n";