diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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+## 1.6.0
+
+March 17, 2017
+
+- Add event tags to `track` API and include in the event payload
+- Deprecates the `eventValue` parameter from the `track` method. Should use event tags to pass in event value instead
+- Gracefully handle a null attributes parameter
+- Gracefully handle a null/empty datafile when using the Gson parser
+
 ## 1.5.0
 
 February 16, 2017
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
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 # Maven version
-version = 1.5.0-SNAPSHOT
+version = 1.6.0-SNAPSHOT
 
 # Artifact paths
 mavenS3Bucket = optimizely-maven