From 99a82d83aa827fd921955069b93129336313cb8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aayush Rajasekaran <arajasek94@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:34:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Lotus version 1.6.0-rc1

---
 CHANGELOG.md     | 8 ++++++++
 build/version.go | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 854166c4c..67baa0ede 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Lotus changelog
 
+# 1.6.0-rc1 / 2021-03-29
+
+This is the first release candidate for Lotus v1.6.0. The only change included in this release is introducing network version 11, which implements [FIP-0014](https://github.com/filecoin-project/FIPs/blob/master/FIPS/fip-0014.md).
+
+## Changes 
+
+- Introduce the v11 network upgrade (https://github.com/filecoin-project/lotus/pull/5904)
+
 # 1.5.3 / 2021-03-24
 
 This is a patch release of Lotus that introduces small fixes to the Storage FSM.
diff --git a/build/version.go b/build/version.go
index 0715a883a..910b17557 100644
--- a/build/version.go
+++ b/build/version.go
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ func buildType() string {
 }
 
 // BuildVersion is the local build version, set by build system
-const BuildVersion = "1.5.3"
+const BuildVersion = "1.6.0-rc1"
 
 func UserVersion() string {
 	return BuildVersion + buildType() + CurrentCommit