diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index b232d64..f1a15e4 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,16 +1,25 @@
-libssh2 1.5.1
+libssh2 1.6.0
 
 This release includes the following changes:
 
- o 
+ o Added CMake build system
+ o Added libssh2_userauth_publickey_frommemory()
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
- o
+ o wait_socket: wrong use of difftime() [1]
+ o userauth: Fixed prompt text no longer being copied to the prompts struct
+ o mingw build: allow to pass custom CFLAGS
+ o Let mansyntax.sh work regardless of where it is called from
+ o Init HMAC_CTX before using it
+ o direct_tcpip: Fixed channel write
  
 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
- 
+  Alexander Lamaison, Daniel Stenberg, David Calavera, Jakob Egger,
+  Viktor Szakáts, Will Cosgrove, Joe Turpin
  
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
+
+ [1] = https://github.com/bagder/libssh2/issues/1
diff --git a/include/libssh2.h b/include/libssh2.h
index e319ad4..5b85eba 100644
--- a/include/libssh2.h
+++ b/include/libssh2.h
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@
    to make the BANNER define (used by src/session.c) be a valid SSH
    banner. Release versions have no appended strings and may of course not
    have dashes either. */
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION                             "1.5.1_DEV"
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION                             "1.6.0_DEV"
 
 /* The numeric version number is also available "in parts" by using these
    defines: */
 #define LIBSSH2_VERSION_MAJOR                       1
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_MINOR                       5
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_PATCH                       1
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_MINOR                       6
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_PATCH                       0
 
 /* This is the numeric version of the libssh2 version number, meant for easier
    parsing and comparions by programs. The LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM define will
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
    and it is always a greater number in a more recent release. It makes
    comparisons with greater than and less than work.
 */
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM                         0x010501
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM                         0x010600
 
 /*
  * This is the date and time when the full source package was created. The