diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 468514873..93734ebf4 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 FROM java:openjdk-7-jre
-ENV MAXWELL_VERSION 1.5.2
+ENV MAXWELL_VERSION 1.6.0
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f3dc0ca54..eed42de8b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ advanced features:
   parser for create/alter/drop statements (nope, there was no other way).
 
 → Download:
-[https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.5.2/maxwell-1.5.2.tar.gz](https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.5.2/maxwell-1.5.2.tar.gz)
+[https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.6.0/maxwell-1.6.0.tar.gz](https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.6.0/maxwell-1.6.0.tar.gz)
 <br/>
 &rarr; Source:
 [https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell](https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell)
diff --git a/docs/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/docs/quickstart.md
index bd2468447..a4eb8f7c4 100644
--- a/docs/docs/quickstart.md
+++ b/docs/docs/quickstart.md
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 ### Download
 ***
-- Download binary distro: [https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.5.2/maxwell-1.5.2.tar.gz](https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.5.2/maxwell-1.5.2.tar.gz)
+- Download binary distro: [https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.6.0/maxwell-1.6.0.tar.gz](https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.6.0/maxwell-1.6.0.tar.gz)
 - Sources and bug tracking is available on github: [https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell](https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell)
 - Obligatory copy/paste to terminal:
 
 ```
-curl -sLo - https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.5.2/maxwell-1.5.2.tar.gz \
+curl -sLo - https://github.com/zendesk/maxwell/releases/download/v1.6.0/maxwell-1.6.0.tar.gz \
        | tar zxvf -
-cd maxwell-1.5.2
+cd maxwell-1.6.0
 ```
 
 ### Row based replication
diff --git a/docs/theme/base.html b/docs/theme/base.html
index e1c4e7272..6bd7f123b 100644
--- a/docs/theme/base.html
+++ b/docs/theme/base.html
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         <!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
         <!--[if lt IE 9]>
             <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"></script>
-            <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.5.2/respond.min.js"></script>
+            <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.6.0/respond.min.js"></script>
         <![endif]-->
         <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
     </head>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9462ad45b..9efb978a3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
   <groupId>com.zendesk</groupId>
   <artifactId>maxwell</artifactId>
-  <version>1.5.2</version>
+  <version>1.6.0</version>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <name>maxwell</name>
diff --git a/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml b/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
index 7b724fa04..105f6cf8b 100644
--- a/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
+++ b/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.5.2"
+<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.6.0"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.5.2 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.5.2.xsd">
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.6.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.6.0.xsd">
   <id>maxwell</id>
   <formats>
     <format>tar.gz</format>