diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 6bfe327ba54aa13885469e924b562b5f61544b0f..43bc79c09ff4eb94c4032317e294ea609e3ed3bd 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ History
 .. to_doc
 
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-0.6.0.dev0
+0.6.0 (2015-12-23)
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 * Pulsar now depends on the new ``galaxy-lib`` Python package instead of
diff --git a/pulsar/__init__.py b/pulsar/__init__.py
index d0756f659ee2cbf6bada83127740875c5a48641b..02ebc476485e545955e74f65249a46c191c51ae4 100644
--- a/pulsar/__init__.py
+++ b/pulsar/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-__version__ = '0.6.0.dev0'
+__version__ = '0.6.0'
 
 PROJECT_NAME = "pulsar"
 PROJECT_OWNER = PROJECT_USERAME = "galaxyproject"