diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index b658f886..bc6fc84e 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 4.6.7
+current_version = 4.6.8
 commit = True
 tag = True
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)(?P<releaselevel>[a-z]+)?
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 9b91e883..2b262f2f 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 |build-status| |coverage| |license| |wheel| |pyversion| |pyimp| |[![Downloads](https://pepy.tech/badge/kombu)](https://pepy.tech/project/kombu)|
 
-:Version: 4.6.7
+:Version: 4.6.8
 :Documentation: https://kombu.readthedocs.io/
 :Download: https://pypi.org/project/kombu/
 :Source: https://github.com/celery/kombu/
diff --git a/docs/includes/introduction.txt b/docs/includes/introduction.txt
index 55550952..411aa4a1 100644
--- a/docs/includes/introduction.txt
+++ b/docs/includes/introduction.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-:Version: 4.6.7
+:Version: 4.6.8
 :Web: https://kombu.readthedocs.io/
 :Download: https://pypi.org/project/kombu/
 :Source: https://github.com/celery/kombu/
diff --git a/kombu/__init__.py b/kombu/__init__.py
index 224e3c4e..68b10ab9 100644
--- a/kombu/__init__.py
+++ b/kombu/__init__.py
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ import re
 import sys
 
 if sys.version_info < (2, 7):  # pragma: no cover
-    raise Exception('Kombu 4.0 requires Python versions 2.7 or later.')
+    raise Exception('Kombu 4.6 requires Python versions 2.7 or later.')
 
 from collections import namedtuple  # noqa
 
-__version__ = '4.6.7'
+__version__ = '4.6.8'
 __author__ = 'Ask Solem'
 __contact__ = 'auvipy@gmail.com, ask@celeryproject.org'
 __homepage__ = 'https://kombu.readthedocs.io'