diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 66fd72d..1155241 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Changes for Perl extension DBD-SQLite
 
+1.61_03 2018-12-19
+    - Upgraded SQLite to 3.26.0, which reportedly has a security fix
+
 1.61_02 2018-12-01
     - Added sqlite_backup_from_dbh/sqlite_backup_to_dbh methods
     - Introduced sqlite_prefer_numeric_type database handle attribute
diff --git a/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm b/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
index 6798c37..ada9768 100644
--- a/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
+++ b/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use strict;
 use DBI   1.57 ();
 use DynaLoader ();
 
-our $VERSION = '1.61_02';
+our $VERSION = '1.61_03';
 our @ISA     = 'DynaLoader';
 
 # sqlite_version cache (set in the XS bootstrap)
diff --git a/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm b/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm
index dabd737..106089c 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 = '1.61_02';
+our $VERSION = '1.61_03';
 our @ISA;