diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index ac39331..1c056f5 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+1.6.0 / 2023-09-13
+===================
+  *  Enclose field names containing literals in quotes
+  *  Add note about extensions
+  *  Remove documentation status link
+  *  Update supported versions in setup.py
+  *  Add LICENSE file
+  *  Code cleanup
+  *  Remove dependency on six
+  *  Update build status badge
+  *  (origin/github-actions, github-actions) Remove testscenarios dependency
+  *  Remove pytest version constraints
+  *  Add testing with GitHub actions
+  *  Escape back slashes in tests to avoid DeprecationWarning.
+  *  Use raw strings for regular expressions to avoid DeprecationWarning.
+  *  refactor(package): remove dependency for decorator
+  *  Merge pull request #128 from michaelmior/hashable
+  *  (origin/hashable, hashable) Make path instances hashable
+  *  Merge pull request #122 from snopoke/snopoke-patch-1
+  *  Add more detail to filter docs.
+  *  remove incorrect parenthesis in filter examples
+  *  Merge pull request #119 from snopoke/patch-1
+  *  add 'sub' line with function param names
+  *  readme formatting fixes
+  *  chore(history): update
+  *  Update __init__.py
 
 1.5.3 / 2021-07-05
 ==================
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 5d36f97..833a1c5 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ To use the extensions below you must import from `jsonpath_ng.ext`.
 | (-+*/)       | - ``$.foo * 12``                              |
 |              | - ``$.objects[*].cow + $.objects[*].cat``     |
 +--------------+-----------------------------------------------+
--
+
 About arithmetic and string
 ---------------------------
 
diff --git a/jsonpath_ng/__init__.py b/jsonpath_ng/__init__.py
index b19fd11..e28943f 100644
--- a/jsonpath_ng/__init__.py
+++ b/jsonpath_ng/__init__.py
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 
 
 # Current package version
-__version__ = '1.5.3'
+__version__ = '1.6.0'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8c11909..62e1e6d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='jsonpath-ng',
-    version='1.5.3',
+    version='1.6.0',
     description=(
         'A final implementation of JSONPath for Python that aims to be '
         'standard compliant, including arithmetic and binary comparison '