diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 537f7110be6807b273939adf8be07515406dfdd3..9c8c9c4f727866d006c3374d629e7881e94d7d84 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changelog
 Unreleased
 ----------
 
+[1.6.0] (2024-10-06)
+--------------------
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Upgraded
@@ -211,6 +214,7 @@ Unreleased
 - mp3 support by using FFmpeg instead of librosa in #8
 - add language detection endpoint in #9
 
+[1.6.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.6.0
 [1.5.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.5.0
 [1.4.1]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.4.1
 [1.4.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.4.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8ce608a9bec59cc6bbfa6ac72827f20c9444dfca..26bbaf7e01cd52bcd7a09895342dcd5409b36999 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large
 
 ## Features
 
-Current release (v1.5.0) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.6.0) supports following whisper models:
 
 - [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper)@[v20240930](https://github.com/openai/whisper/releases/tag/v20240930)
 - [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v1.0.3](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/1.0.3)
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 8800bf1bd34aa26ec3ec62207e0ae7f6b9fdea41..8cc5d18c26205b455ab46580323d0e29766adabd 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large
 
 ## Features
 
-Current release (v1.5.0) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.6.0) supports following whisper models:
 
 - [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper)@[v20240930](https://github.com/openai/whisper/releases/tag/v20240930)
 - [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v1.0.3](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/1.0.3)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7a2853397e6d03a610e674108b0876b885dcd6e5..1cc35c701b86c882ff364609346a8191ed551ea7 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "whisper-asr-webservice"
-version = "1.6.0-dev"
+version = "1.6.0"
 description = "Whisper ASR Webservice is a general-purpose speech recognition webservice."
 homepage = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/"
 license = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/blob/main/LICENCE"