diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 834f57db4521c983947ed4b960b2877c914b5bb2..c6d41cc49d74b72056d825ca731fa79897fc537b 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ authors:
     given-names: Stefan
     orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7214-8125
 title: CaosDB - Crawler
-version: 0.5.0
+version: 0.6.0
 doi: 10.3390/data4020083
-date-released: 2023-03-28
\ No newline at end of file
+date-released: 2023-06-23
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 8e642ee95db791973b1e8da9c868bc6f15671111..87aaa4bc58c6606e4237ce439e41fd020cad7cd4 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = caoscrawler
-version = 0.5.1
+version = 0.6.0
 author = Alexander Schlemmer
 author_email = alexander.schlemmer@ds.mpg.de
 description = A new crawler for caosdb
diff --git a/src/doc/conf.py b/src/doc/conf.py
index 64ed869319eaab128e39f4a59d4c880b1e94a441..279d9853e1ed76e01ce4f13fe7bde09850715c84 100644
--- a/src/doc/conf.py
+++ b/src/doc/conf.py
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ copyright = '2021, MPIDS'
 author = 'Alexander Schlemmer'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '0.5.1'
+version = '0.6.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
 # release = '0.5.2-rc2'
-release = '0.5.1-dev'
+release = '0.6.0'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------