diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 767982b0f..5ca326a0d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 - Diagnostics related feature requests and improvements [#5951](https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5951)
 - Debug from .csproj and .sln [#5876](https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5876)
 
+# 2.86.x
+
 # 2.85.x
 * Bump Roslyn to 5.0.0-1.25326.2 (PR: [#8386](https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/pull/8386))
   * Fix nullable oblivious quick info (PR: [#79102](https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/79102))
diff --git a/version.json b/version.json
index 9b4b95b39..91a88f645 100644
--- a/version.json
+++ b/version.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/Nerdbank.GitVersioning/master/src/NerdBank.GitVersioning/version.schema.json",
-    "version": "2.85",
+    "version": "2.86",
     "publicReleaseRefSpec": [
         "^refs/heads/release$",
         "^refs/heads/prerelease$",