diff --git a/api/portainer.go b/api/portainer.go
index 03736a845..7b7ff45f3 100644
--- a/api/portainer.go
+++ b/api/portainer.go
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ type (
 
 const (
 	// APIVersion is the version number of the Portainer API
-	APIVersion = "2.6.0"
+	APIVersion = "2.6.2"
 	// DBVersion is the version number of the Portainer database
 	DBVersion = 32
 	// ComposeSyntaxMaxVersion is a maximum supported version of the docker compose syntax