diff --git a/docs/release.rst b/docs/release.rst
index 591158e95..e0f8a8638 100644
--- a/docs/release.rst
+++ b/docs/release.rst
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ To release a new version of pybind11:
     - ``python setup.py bdist_wheel upload``.
     - Tag release date in ``doc/changelog.rst``.
 - Tag the commit and push to anaconda.org
-    - ``git tag -a X.X -m '[Release comment]'``.
-    - ``conda-build conda.recipe --output``
+    - ``git tag -a vX.Y -m 'vX.Y release'``.
+    - ``conda-build conda.recipe``
       This should ouput the path of the generated tar.bz2 for the package
     - ``conda-convert --platform all [path/to/tar.bz2] -o .``
     - ``for i in *-32/* *-64/*; do anaconda upload -u pybind $i; done``
diff --git a/include/pybind11/common.h b/include/pybind11/common.h
index 9739cdac5..77d4ebbdc 100644
--- a/include/pybind11/common.h
+++ b/include/pybind11/common.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #define PYBIND11_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define PYBIND11_VERSION_MINOR 5
+#define PYBIND11_VERSION_MINOR 6
 
 /// Include Python header, disable linking to pythonX_d.lib on Windows in debug mode
 #if defined(_MSC_VER)
diff --git a/pybind11/_version.py b/pybind11/_version.py
index fc9a9cc06..5e9732019 100644
--- a/pybind11/_version.py
+++ b/pybind11/_version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-version_info = (1, 5)
+version_info = (1, 6, 'dev0')
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, version_info))