diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 84b24cd0..8b5189cb 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -27,13 +27,17 @@ Fixes
 * `#557 <https://github.com/dw/mitogen/issues/557>`_: fix a crash when running
   on machines with high CPU counts.
 
+* `#570 <https://github.com/dw/mitogen/issues/570>`_: the ``firewalld`` module
+  internally caches a dbus name that changes across ``firewalld`` restarts,
+  causing a failure if the service is restarted between ``firewalld`` module invocations.
+
 * `#575 <https://github.com/dw/mitogen/issues/575>`_: fix a crash when
   rendering an error message to indicate no usable temporary directories could
   be found.
 
-* `#570 <https://github.com/dw/mitogen/issues/570>`_: the ``firewalld`` module
-  internally caches a dbus name that changes across ``firewalld`` restarts,
-  causing a failure if the service is restarted between ``firewalld`` module invocations.
+* `#576 <https://github.com/dw/mitogen/issues/576>`_: fix a crash during
+  startup on SuSE Linux 11, due to an incorrect version compatibility check in
+  the Mitogen code.
 
 
 Thanks!
diff --git a/mitogen/core.py b/mitogen/core.py
index 578337f7..ff77bba9 100644
--- a/mitogen/core.py
+++ b/mitogen/core.py
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ class Kwargs(dict):
                     self[k.decode()] = v
                 else:
                     self[k] = v
-    elif sys.version_info < (2, 6):
+    elif sys.version_info < (2, 6, 5):
         def __init__(self, dct):
             for k, v in dct.iteritems():
                 if type(k) is unicode: