diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c05fa337334dc78ecc0da93a7854b8cee3c13e91..882bd94a96b948e50627cb1b8580ff082ee314e0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+shared-mime-info 1.6 (2016-02-23)
+* Add XAR archive mime-type
+* Add GeoJSON mime-type
+* Add GPX mime-type
+* Add xdg-app mime-type
+* Add *.xht glob and magic for XHTML files
+* Bump priority of archive mime-types with long magics,
+  to avoid false positives when detecting files inside
+  the archive itself
+
 shared-mime-info 1.5 (2015-09-15)
 * Fix compilation with glib < 2.26
 * Update DTD
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 45221a49d052215871835921f4b989d0ab4b41c1..1203ec68a5ef8cf703d054f04bec5e8817dfcb3e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([shared-mime-info],[1.5],[https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=shared-mime-info])
+AC_INIT([shared-mime-info],[1.6],[https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=shared-mime-info])
 
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 foreign no-dist-gzip dist-xz check-news])