diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 35cfc74f5522..d530ce4e1373 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ XGBoost Change Log
 
 This file records the changes in xgboost library in reverse chronological order.
 
-## brick: next release candidate
+## v0.6 (2016.07.29)
+* Version 0.5 is skipped due to major improvements in the core
 * Major refactor of core library.
   - Goal: more flexible and modular code as a portable library.
   - Switch to use of c++11 standard code.
@@ -34,6 +35,14 @@ This file records the changes in xgboost library in reverse chronological order.
 * Support model attributes listing for meta data.
   - https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/1198
   - https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/1166
+* Support callback API
+  - https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/issues/892
+  - https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/1211
+  - https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/1264
+* Support new booster DART(dropout in tree boosting)
+  - https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/1220
+* Add CMake build system
+  - https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost/pull/1314
 
 ## v0.47 (2016.01.14)
 
diff --git a/R-package/DESCRIPTION b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
index 047a0862b6e7..e9d566f2dc4c 100644
--- a/R-package/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: xgboost
 Type: Package
 Title: Extreme Gradient Boosting
-Version: 0.4-3
+Version: 0.6-0
 Date: 2015-08-01
 Author: Tianqi Chen <tianqi.tchen@gmail.com>, Tong He <hetong007@gmail.com>,
     Michael Benesty <michael@benesty.fr>, Vadim Khotilovich <khotilovich@gmail.com>,
diff --git a/python-package/xgboost/VERSION b/python-package/xgboost/VERSION
index e6adf3fc7bb7..490f510fc27c 100644
--- a/python-package/xgboost/VERSION
+++ b/python-package/xgboost/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.4
\ No newline at end of file
+0.6
\ No newline at end of file