diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 26a2626..0cea894 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-## v2.5.0 → v2.6.0
-  * Perf: make ns filtering a compile-time check.
+## v2.5.0 → v2.6.1
   * Perf: add support for a compile-time logging level environment variable (`TIMBRE_LOG_LEVEL`). See `timbre/compile-time-level` docstring for details.
 
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 673b3ba..3bafe5f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 **[API docs](http://ptaoussanis.github.io/timbre/)** | **[CHANGELOG](https://github.com/ptaoussanis/timbre/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)** | [contact & contributing](#contact--contributing) | [other Clojure libs](https://www.taoensso.com/clojure-libraries) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/#!/ptaoussanis) | current [semantic](http://semver.org/) version:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/timbre "2.6.0"] ; See CHANGELOG for breaking changes since 1.x
+[com.taoensso/timbre "2.6.1"] ; See CHANGELOG for breaking changes since 1.x
 ```
 
 # Timbre, a (sane) Clojure logging & profiling library
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Logging with Java can be maddeningly, unnecessarily hard. Particularly if all yo
 Add the necessary dependency to your [Leiningen](http://leiningen.org/) `project.clj` and `require` the library in your ns:
 
 ```clojure
-[com.taoensso/timbre "2.6.0"] ; project.clj
+[com.taoensso/timbre "2.6.1"] ; project.clj
 (ns my-app (:require [taoensso.timbre :as timbre
                       :refer (trace debug info warn error fatal spy with-log-level)])) ; ns
 ```
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index ab049a3..90abddf 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(defproject com.taoensso/timbre "2.6.0"
+(defproject com.taoensso/timbre "2.6.1"
   :description "Clojure logging & profiling library"
   :url "https://github.com/ptaoussanis/timbre"
   :license {:name "Eclipse Public License"
diff --git a/src/taoensso/timbre.clj b/src/taoensso/timbre.clj
index 3014f30..77e98f0 100644
--- a/src/taoensso/timbre.clj
+++ b/src/taoensso/timbre.clj
@@ -334,13 +334,13 @@
 
 (defmacro logging-enabled?
   "Returns true iff current logging level is sufficient and current namespace
-  unfiltered. The namespace test is compile-time, the logging-level test
-  compile-time iff a compile-time logging level was specified."
-  [level & body]
-  (when (@ns-filter-cache *ns*)
-    (if compile-time-level
-      (sufficient-level? level)
-      `(sufficient-level? ~level))))
+  unfiltered. The namespace test is runtime, the logging-level test compile-time
+  iff a compile-time logging level was specified."
+  [level]
+  (if compile-time-level
+    (when (sufficient-level? level)
+      `(@ns-filter-cache *ns*))
+    `(and (sufficient-level? ~level) (@ns-filter-cache *ns*))))
 
 (comment
   (def compile-time-level :info)