diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index aae544dfe..0efe3e1a7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+1.6.0
+=====
+
+### Features
+
+#893  adds integration with ida 7
+#892  implements helper functions for creating and manipulating partitions
+#906  makes dead code elimination less conservative
+#914  preserves brancher information in the BIL code of an instruction
+#820  Jane Street 0.11.x library compatibility + minor fixes
+#922  few x86 enhancements
+#923  SSE XMM0 ABI
+#933  enables bap-elf
+#934  adds the compiler option to byteweight
+#932  enables memory sharing between instructions
+#938  removed upper bound for llvm version, compatibility with LLVM 8.0
+#926  enables functions with multiple entry
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+#907  fixes the free-vars-by-dominators computation algorithm
+#915  fixed building on travis
+#920  fix the i64 import error
+#927  fixes ADT printer
+#939  fixes the order of arguments in the callsites plugin
+#937  fixes TOCTOU bug in bap log
+#941  fixes a dependency bug in primus lisp docs
+
 1.5.0
 =====
 
diff --git a/oasis/common b/oasis/common
index f4a30434c..542aa8eb8 100644
--- a/oasis/common
+++ b/oasis/common
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 OASISFormat: 0.4
 Name:        bap
-Version:     1.6.0-dev
+Version:     1.6.0
 OCamlVersion: >= 4.04.1
 Synopsis:    BAP Core Library
 Authors:     BAP Team
 Maintainers: Ivan Gotovchits <ivg@ieee.org>
 License:     MIT
-Copyrights:  (C) 2018 Carnegie Mellon University
+Copyrights:  (C) 2019 Carnegie Mellon University
 Plugins:     META (0.4)
 AlphaFeatures: ocamlbuild_more_args, compiled_setup_ml
 BuildTools: ocamlbuild