diff --git a/changelog/project.xml b/changelog/project.xml
index ed32d36e..7cb457f1 100644
--- a/changelog/project.xml
+++ b/changelog/project.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   <pomVersion>3</pomVersion>
   <id>maven-changelog-plugin</id>
   <name>Maven Changelog Plugin</name>
-  <currentVersion>1.6-SNAPSHOT</currentVersion>
+  <currentVersion>1.6</currentVersion>
   <description/>
   <shortDescription>Produce SCM changelog reports</shortDescription>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/changelog/</url>
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
       <name>1.5</name>
       <tag>MAVEN_CHANGELOG_1_5</tag>
     </version>
+    <version>
+      <id>1.6</id>
+      <name>1.6</name>
+      <tag>MAVEN_CHANGELOG_1_6</tag>
+    </version>
   </versions>
   <developers>
     <developer>
diff --git a/changelog/xdocs/changes.xml b/changelog/xdocs/changes.xml
index 86a9293e..e8003454 100644
--- a/changelog/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/changelog/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,14 +25,12 @@
     <author email="evenisse@ifrance.com">Emmanuel Venisse</author>
   </properties>
   <body>
-    
-    <release version="1.6-SNAPSHOT" date="in CVS">
+    <release version="1.6" date="2004-06-25">
       <action dev="brett" type="fix" issue="MPCHANGELOG-34" due-to="Rafael Santiago, Jr.">Prevent any NPE depending on certain repository definition conditions</action>
       <action dev="brett" type="fix">Build and run plugin against the installed version of Maven</action>
       <action dev="evenisse" type="fix" issue="MPCHANGELOG-39">Fix date format with clearcase.</action>
       <action dev="dion" type="update">Allow empty passwords in create-cvspass</action>
     </release>
-    
     <release version="1.5" date="2004-05-16">
       <action dev="dion" type="fix" due-to="Tim Shadel" issue="MPCHANGELOG-22">Parsing of windows user names (domain\user) was broken.</action>
       <action dev="dion" type="fix" due-to="Archimedes Trajano">Bad documentation for goals</action>
