diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index bb59982..4d31763 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.5.0
+current_version = 1.6.0
 commit = True
 tag = True
 message = Version {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 86285af..b24ad97 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 # version of URLExtract
 # (do not forget to change it in urlextract_core.py as well)
-__version__ = "1.5.0"
+__version__ = "1.6.0"
 
 
 def read(readme):
diff --git a/urlextract/urlextract_core.py b/urlextract/urlextract_core.py
index 377e544..66e2c1c 100644
--- a/urlextract/urlextract_core.py
+++ b/urlextract/urlextract_core.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 from urlextract.cachefile import CacheFile, CacheFileError
 
 # version of URLExtract (do not forget to change it in setup.py as well)
-__version__ = "1.5.0"
+__version__ = "1.6.0"
 
 # default value for maximum count of processed URLs by find_url
 DEFAULT_LIMIT = 10000