diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 27537f8eac..d484020856 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## v1.6.0-rc.0 / 2019-04-05
+
+* [FEATURE] Add `kube_replicaset_labels` to replicaset collector (#638).
+* [FEATURE] Add ingresses collector (#640).
+* [FEATURE] Add certificate signing request collector (#650).
+* [FEATURE] Add `kube_persistentvolumeclaim_access_mode` metric (#673).
+* [FEATURE] Add `kube_persistentvolume_capacity` metric (#674).
+* [FEATURE] Add `kube_job_owner` metric (#681).
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Add `priority_class` label to `kube_pod_info` metric (#713).
+
 ## v1.5.0 / 2019-01-10
 
 After a testing period of 30 days, there were no additional bugs found or features introduced. Due to no bugs being reported over an in total 41 days period, we feel no more pre-releases are necessary for a stable release.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fbd74cd3e7..8956aaaf99 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ At most 5 kube-state-metrics releases will be recorded below.
 
 #### Resource group version compatibility
 Resources in Kubernetes can evolve, i.e., the group version for a resource may change from alpha to beta and finally GA
-in different Kubernetes versions. As for now, kube-state-metrics will only use the oldest API available in the latest
+in different Kubernetes versions. For now, kube-state-metrics will only use the oldest API available in the latest
 release.
 
 #### Container Image
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ those that could be used for actionable alerts. Please contribute PR's for
 additional metrics!
 
 > WARNING: THESE METRIC/TAG NAMES ARE UNSTABLE AND MAY CHANGE IN A FUTURE RELEASE.
-> For now the following metrics and collectors
+> For now, the following metrics and collectors
 >
 > **metrics**
 >	* kube_pod_container_resource_requests_nvidia_gpu_devices
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ Resource usage for kube-state-metrics changes with the Kubernetes objects(Pods/N
 To some extent, the Kubernetes objects in a cluster are in direct proportion to the node number of the cluster.
 [addon-resizer](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/addon-resizer)
 can watch and automatically vertically scale the dependent container up and down based on the number of nodes.
-Thus kube-state-metrics uses `addon-resizer` to automatically scale its resource request. As for the detailed usage about
-`addon-resizer` please go to its [ReadMe](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/addon-resizer#nanny-program-and-arguments).
+Thus kube-state-metrics uses `addon-resizer` to automatically scale its resource request. To learn more about the usage of
+`addon-resizer`, please go to its [README](https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/addon-resizer/README.md#nanny-program-and-arguments).
 
 As a general rule, you should allocate
 
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ go get k8s.io/kube-state-metrics
 
 #### Building the Docker container
 
-Simple run the following command in this root folder, which will create a
+Simply run the following command in this root folder, which will create a
 self-contained, statically-linked binary and build a Docker image:
 ```
 make container
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index bc80560fad..9b5dcedb1a 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.0
+1.6.0-rc.0