diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 6369c10a..7b8a4e3f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 emoji
 =====
 
+1.6.0
+-----
+* Fix Unicode of some emoji in the language files
+* is_emoji function added
+* Added dict of dict with emoji data include emoji versions and statuses
+* emoji.version(string) method added
+* Included 'variant' in the dict of dicts
+
+
 1.5.0
 -----
 * Emojis of English version updated to the Emoji Charts v14.0
diff --git a/emoji/__init__.py b/emoji/__init__.py
index e95efda5..60dd736b 100644
--- a/emoji/__init__.py
+++ b/emoji/__init__.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     'EMOJI_ALIAS_UNICODE_ENGLISH', 'UNICODE_EMOJI_ALIAS_ENGLISH', 'EMOJI_DATA',
 ]
 
-__version__ = '1.5.0'
+__version__ = '1.6.0'
 __author__ = 'Taehoon Kim, Kevin Wurster and Tahir Jalilov'
 __email__ = 'carpedm20@gmail.com'
 # and wursterk@gmail.com, tahir.jalilov@gmail.com