diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index fd31228c49be0a23a89a636eb82c9143655f0cb2..9af8d2b9485517942d2eeff7f561066b66b164bc 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8.6)
 project (opendht)
 set (opendht_VERSION_MAJOR 0)
-set (opendht_VERSION_MINOR 5.2)
+set (opendht_VERSION_MINOR 6.0)
 set (opendht_VERSION ${opendht_VERSION_MAJOR}.${opendht_VERSION_MINOR})
 set (PACKAGE_VERSION ${opendht_VERSION})
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4bca43e341a75ff66ee350751cd06013fb3dfc4a..60cf085512238dbf558d61faf01828ef8ffbfe26 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT(opendht, 0.5.2)
+AC_INIT(opendht, 0.6.0)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(ac)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])