diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index e88c656b..c76f9894 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 All changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [10.2.6] - 2020-08-17
+
+(ixwebsocket) replace std::unique_ptr<unsigned char[]> with std::array for some fixed arrays (which are in C++11)
+
 ## [10.2.5] - 2020-08-15
 
 (ws) merge all ws_*.cpp files into a single one to speedup compilation
diff --git a/ixwebsocket/IXHttpClient.cpp b/ixwebsocket/IXHttpClient.cpp
index 9707d409..2673bf7b 100644
--- a/ixwebsocket/IXHttpClient.cpp
+++ b/ixwebsocket/IXHttpClient.cpp
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
 #include "IXUrlParser.h"
 #include "IXUserAgent.h"
 #include "IXWebSocketHttpHeaders.h"
+#include <array>
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <iomanip>
 #include <random>
 #include <sstream>
 #include <vector>
-#include <array>
 
 #ifdef IXWEBSOCKET_USE_ZLIB
 #include <zlib.h>
diff --git a/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h b/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
index f0348e98..7ee42087 100644
--- a/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
+++ b/ixwebsocket/IXWebSocketVersion.h
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
-#define IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION "10.2.5"
+#define IX_WEBSOCKET_VERSION "10.2.6"