diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 48104fcaa3c2d5c9fecdcddc74bc499832ce5d67..743e1639ee53a7e0779f708b55daf1f349157290 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # Specify the required version of CMake.
 # cmake 3.10 required for ctest/gtest integration
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
-project(ale VERSION 0.5.0 DESCRIPTION "Abstraction Library for Ephemerides ")
+project(ale VERSION 0.6.0 DESCRIPTION "Abstraction Library for Ephemerides ")
 
 # include what we need
 include(GNUInstallDirs)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index df08e59b9ee0c46b2ce547bbfe43e53c5e94f60d..bc239b9cea844d1a0efd9458d4d6199219970c47 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import sys
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 NAME = "Ale"
-VERSION = "0.5.0"
+VERSION = "0.6.0"
 
 # To install the library, run the following
 #