diff --git a/lib/rb/Rakefile b/lib/rb/Rakefile
index 10383e7..c6f32eb 100644
--- a/lib/rb/Rakefile
+++ b/lib/rb/Rakefile
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
     p.summary = "Ruby libraries for Thrift (a language-agnostic RPC system)"
     p.url = "http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/"
     p.include_rakefile = true
-    p.version = "0.2.5"
+    p.version = "0.6.0"
     p.rubygems_version = ">= 1.2.0"
   end