diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 6bbfeb6..55e529d 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1 +1 @@
-{".":"0.5.0"}
+{".":"0.6.0"}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e89d7d0..c86df3c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Release entries are generated by release-please from Conventional Commit
 messages (see CONTRIBUTING.md), and this project adheres to
 [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 
+## [0.6.0](https://github.com/SpectraWorksOSS/SpectrAccess/compare/v0.5.0...v0.6.0) (2026-10-18)
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* use absolute GitHub links in the PyPI overview ([f32a152](https://github.com/SpectraWorksOSS/SpectrAccess/commit/f32a1525c6c7a8c7ef052c52f3625f332a463cf5))
+
 ## [0.5.0](https://github.com/SpectraWorksOSS/SpectrAccess/compare/v0.4.0...v0.5.0) (2026-10-09)
 
 
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index eddc08b..d53df1b 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ message: "If you use spectrAccess, please cite it as below."
 title: "spectrAccess"
 authors:
   - name: "SpectraWorks B.V."
-version: "0.5.0" # x-release-please-version
+version: "0.6.0" # x-release-please-version
 license: "Apache-2.0"
 repository-code: "https://github.com/SpectraWorksOSS/SpectrAccess"
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1ccaaef..419e363 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "spectraccess"
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.6.0"
 description = "Find and download spectral and atmospheric reference data in Python: RadCalNet, GSICS, AERONET, CAMS, Landsat, Sentinel-2 and EMIT, parsed to pandas DataFrames, with a shared per-value uncertainty schema for GSICS, RadCalNet and AERONET."
 readme = "OVERVIEW.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"