diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index decc6d419f78789f1b85a72a6283ebdfdc534d32..1714661ac035aaf4a1b7bba3ea7f2ad40a9ef83d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,13 +1,4 @@
 Changelog is kept at [GitHub](https://github.com/Dronehub/minijson/releases),
 here's only the changelog for the version in development
 
-# v1.5
-
-* fixed a bug with wrong type of dict and string was chosen 
-  for a dict which contains exactly 65535 keys.
-  Since this is rare in production, it can wait.
-  MiniJSON is still generated correctly.
-* fixed a bug with dumping strings longer than 255 characters
-  would not return a length
-* fixed a bug with unserializing some strings
-
+# v1.6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bdfafc349781202a764091536f3f80634f450106..ee331f886d9f433fa5faeb6455ba5f8a0e610036 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ if 'DEBUG' in os.environ:
     directives['embedsignature'] = True
 
 
-setup(version='1.5',
+setup(version='1.6a1',
       packages=find_packages(include=['minijson', 'minijson.*']),
       ext_modules=build([Multibuild('minijson', find_pyx('minijson'),
                                     dont_snakehouse=dont_snakehouse), ],