diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6648276e4972a05ba30bcba4d7f91bd8d9c64d59..9760fd52170303c9c102facca41aae2349d64333 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ Then copy your resulting wheel and install it via pip on the target system.
 ## v0.6.2
 
 * added the context manager syntax to VarlenIterator
+* fixed a memory leak that happened during getting current value
+    from an empty series
 
 ## v0.6.1
 
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 1da873475b866fc4f2edc9be5eb58790b1af268f..3e4aa7c5433a910ae72a0ab5e4a14f44da6c2622 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # coding: utf-8
 [metadata]
 name = tempsdb
-version = 0.6.2a2
+version = 0.6.2a3
 long-description = file: README.md
 long-description-content-type = text/markdown; charset=UTF-8
 license_files = LICENSE
diff --git a/tempsdb/series.pyx b/tempsdb/series.pyx
index eb5171856846a7a4f7941f39c6a9312c92d8fa29..b0ba3981d723b480d4e34e21e117e3c903bf03f5 100644
--- a/tempsdb/series.pyx
+++ b/tempsdb/series.pyx
@@ -47,13 +47,12 @@ cdef class TimeSeries:
         cdef:
             Iterator it = self.iterate_range(self.last_chunk.max_ts, self.last_chunk.max_ts)
             tuple tpl = it.next_item()
+        it.close()
 
         if tpl is None:
             raise ValueError('Series is empty!')
-        try:
-            return tpl
-        finally:
-            it.close()
+
+        return tpl
 
     cpdef int disable_mmap(self) except -1:
         """