diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 36a947281..2b22be1d3 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
   </properties>
   <body>
 
+  <release version="3.6" date="tba" description="tba">
+  </release>
+
   <release version="3.5" date="2016-10-13" description="New features including Java 9 detection">
     <action issue="LANG-1275" type="add" dev="oheger">Added a tryAcquire() method to TimedSemaphore.</action>
     <action issue="LANG-1273" type="add" dev="ebourg" due-to="Jake Wang">Added a new property IS_OS_MAC_OSX_EL_CAPITAN in SystemUtils</action>
