diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ece8dcba0..2e2f2b983 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ php Cookbook CHANGELOG
 ======================
 This file is used to list changes made in each version of the php cookbook.
 
+v1.6.0 (2015-7-6)
+-----------------
+- Added ChefSpec matchers
+- Added basic PHP-FPM Support (Pre-Release)
+- Added support for FreeBSD
+- Updated cookbook to use MySQL 6.0 cookbook
+- Update cookbook to use php5enmod on supported platforms
+- Allow users to override php-mysql package
+
 v1.5.0 (2014-10-06)
 -------------------
 - Adding package_options attribute, utilizing in package resource
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index 76003735a..f0bd12f0a 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 maintainer_email  'cookbooks@getchef.com'
 license           'Apache 2.0'
 description       'Installs and maintains php and php modules'
-version           '1.5.0'
+version           '1.6.0'
 
 depends 'build-essential'
 depends 'xml'