diff --git a/bigchaindb/version.py b/bigchaindb/version.py
index 5b1ca602..e3155206 100644
--- a/bigchaindb/version.py
+++ b/bigchaindb/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-__version__ = '0.5.1'
-__short_version__ = '0.5'
+__version__ = '0.6.0'
+__short_version__ = '0.6'