diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2fc9aa4..68165ce 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     <name>aerospike-jdbc</name>
     <description>A JDBC driver for the Aerospike database</description>
     <url>https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-jdbc</url>
-    <version>1.5.0</version>
+    <version>1.6.0</version>
 
     <properties>
         <skipTests>false</skipTests>