diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 0e8e16c..2e2216d 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Changes for Perl extension DBD-SQLite
 
+1.71_06 2022-03-12
+    - Set UTF8CACHE to avoid slowdown with -DDEBUGGING (andk, Leont, FGasper)
+
 1.71_05 2022-02-26
     - Fix another test failure on perl built with -DDEBUGGING
     - Lowercase datatype in table column metadata for backcompat
diff --git a/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm b/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
index 2b319d5..f1a78b6 100644
--- a/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
+++ b/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use strict;
 use DBI   1.57 ();
 use XSLoader ();
 
-our $VERSION = '1.71_05';
+our $VERSION = '1.71_06';
 
 # sqlite_version cache (set in the XS bootstrap)
 our ($sqlite_version, $sqlite_version_number);
diff --git a/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm b/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm
index b60c9eb..0f62157 100644
--- a/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm
+++ b/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Scalar::Util    qw/weaken/;
 
-our $VERSION = '1.71_05';
+our $VERSION = '1.71_06';
 our @ISA;