diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e11582a..e954c57 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "zbox"
-version = "0.5.1"
+version = "0.6.0"
 authors = ["Bo Lu"]
 description = "Zbox is a zero-details, privacy-focused embeddable file system."
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/zbox"
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 932e721..cfa6d09 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Add the following dependency to your `Cargo.toml`:
 
 ```toml
 [dependencies]
-zbox = "0.5.1"
+zbox = "0.6.0"
 ```
 
 ## Example
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2975fac..369890b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 dnl Semantic Versioning, http://semver.org
 m4_define([zbox_version_major], [0])
-m4_define([zbox_version_minor], [5])
-m4_define([zbox_version_patch], [1])
+m4_define([zbox_version_minor], [6])
+m4_define([zbox_version_patch], [0])
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
 AC_INIT([libzbox],