diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index 182c5b2..60047f9 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+luastatus 0.6.0 (January 16, 2021)
+===
+- plugins/unixsock: new plugin
+- plugins/mpd: fix null pointer dereference bug
+- other fixes
+
 luastatus 0.5.0 (July 03, 2020)
 ===
 - plugins/{inotify,udev}: support for push_timeout() function
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 8f0916f..a918a2a 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.5.0
+0.6.0