diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index a629922d..34a087ea 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -25,10 +25,13 @@ on:
         required: true
         default: true
         type: boolean
-
+      version-bump-branch:
+        type: string
+        required: true
+        description: Branch to target for version bump
 jobs:
   release:
-    uses: NVIDIA/NeMo-FW-CI-templates/.github/workflows/_release_library.yml@v0.15.0
+    uses: NVIDIA/NeMo-FW-CI-templates/.github/workflows/_release_library.yml@v0.18.4
     with:
       release-ref: ${{ inputs.release-ref }}
       image-name: nemo_curator_container
@@ -43,6 +46,7 @@ jobs:
       container-workdir: /opt/NeMo-Curator
       library-name: NeMo Curator
       dry-run: ${{ inputs.dry-run }}
+      version-bump-branch: ${{ inputs.version-bump-branch }}
     secrets:
       TWINE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.TWINE_USERNAME }}
       TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TWINE_PASSWORD }}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4de64f09..7109b43d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## NeMo Curator 0.6.0
+
+- Synthetic Data Generation for Text Retrieval
+  - LLM-based Filters
+    - Easiness
+    - Answerability
+  - Q&A Retrieval Generation Pipeline
+- Parallel Dataset Curation for Machine Translation
+  - Load/Write Bitext Files
+  - Heuristic filtering (Histogram, Length Ratio)
+  - Classifier filtering (Comet, Cometoid)
+
 ## NeMo Curator 0.5.0
 
 ### Highlights
diff --git a/nemo_curator/package_info.py b/nemo_curator/package_info.py
index 8cbdba93..95866803 100644
--- a/nemo_curator/package_info.py
+++ b/nemo_curator/package_info.py
@@ -23,7 +23,13 @@
 VERSION = (MAJOR, MINOR, PATCH, PRE_RELEASE, DEV)
 
 __shortversion__ = ".".join(map(str, VERSION[:3]))
-__version__ = __shortversion__ + VERSION[3] + "." + ".".join(VERSION[4:])
+__version__ = __shortversion__
+
+if VERSION[3] != "":
+    __version__ = __version__ + VERSION[3]
+
+if VERSION[4] != "":
+    __version__ = __version__ + "." + ".".join(VERSION[4:])
 
 __package_name__ = "nemo_curator"
 __contact_names__ = "NVIDIA"