diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 335858c7c..e52850de3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 1.6.0 (pending)
+## 1.6.0 (2016-05-04)
 - Remove unnecessary AWSHelperFn from props
 - ReplicationConfigurationRules Destination is now an object (#380)
 - Add WAF SizeConstraintSet and XssMatchSet
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
 - Implement LifecycleRule Transitions property (#472)
 - Better AWSHelperFn support in template generator (#473)
 - Fix Bucket AccessControl to allow Ref (#475)
+- Fix baseclass for AWS::Logs::Destination (#481)
+- Add test for AWS::Logs::Destination (#482)
 
 ## 1.5.0 (2016-03-01)
 - Add MariaDB to list of RDS engines [GH-368]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 15db18971..33e306a7d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='troposphere',
-    version='1.5.0',
+    version='1.6.0',
     description="AWS CloudFormation creation library",
     author="Mark Peek",
     author_email="mark@peek.org",
diff --git a/troposphere/__init__.py b/troposphere/__init__.py
index 63b01f358..39e021f46 100644
--- a/troposphere/__init__.py
+++ b/troposphere/__init__.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 from . import validators
 
-__version__ = "1.5.0"
+__version__ = "1.6.0"
 
 # constants for DeletionPolicy
 Delete = 'Delete'