diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d2d6f36..83fea0f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -33,3 +33,4 @@ nosetests.xml
 .mr.developer.cfg
 .project
 .pydevproject
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index f7a6247..003291e 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ History
 -------
 
 
+2.0.5 (2014-08-07)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+- upgrade external wakatime package to v2.0.6
+- fix unicode bug by encoding json POST data
+
+
 2.0.4 (2014-07-25)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/plugin/packages/wakatime/.gitignore b/plugin/packages/wakatime/.gitignore
index b2fd43f..a8b8ca4 100644
--- a/plugin/packages/wakatime/.gitignore
+++ b/plugin/packages/wakatime/.gitignore
@@ -36,3 +36,4 @@ nosetests.xml
 
 virtualenv
 venv
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/plugin/packages/wakatime/wakatime/__init__.py b/plugin/packages/wakatime/wakatime/__init__.py
index 5916e95..0774018 100644
--- a/plugin/packages/wakatime/wakatime/__init__.py
+++ b/plugin/packages/wakatime/wakatime/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 __title__ = 'wakatime'
-__version__ = '2.0.5'
+__version__ = '2.0.6'
 __author__ = 'Alan Hamlett'
 __license__ = 'BSD'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2014 Alan Hamlett'
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def parseConfigFile(configFile):
                 return None
     except IOError:
         if not os.path.isfile(configFile):
-            print('Error: Could not read from config file ~/.wakatime.conf')
+            print('Error: Could not read from config file ~/.wakatime.cfg')
     return configs
 
 
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ def send_action(project=None, branch=None, stats=None, key=None, targetFile=None
     log.debug(data)
 
     # setup api request
-    request = Request(url=url, data=json.dumps(data))
+    request = Request(url=url, data=str.encode(json.dumps(data)))
     request.add_header('User-Agent', get_user_agent(plugin))
     request.add_header('Content-Type', 'application/json')
     auth = unicode('Basic {key}').format(key=bytes.decode(base64.b64encode(str.encode(key))))
diff --git a/plugin/wakatime.vim b/plugin/wakatime.vim
index ac1c2e5..f3e6a66 100644
--- a/plugin/wakatime.vim
+++ b/plugin/wakatime.vim
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 " Website:     https://wakatime.com/
 " ============================================================================
 
-let s:VERSION = '2.0.4'
+let s:VERSION = '2.0.5'
 
 
 " Init {{{