diff --git a/spacy/about.py b/spacy/about.py
index 92c5f7d08..03b57a1df 100644
--- a/spacy/about.py
+++ b/spacy/about.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/blob/master/warehouse/__about__.py
 
 __title__ = 'spacy'
-__version__ = '1.5.2'
+__version__ = '1.6.0'
 __summary__ = 'Industrial-strength NLP'
 __uri__ = 'https://spacy.io'
 __author__ = 'Matthew Honnibal'