diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index afca4f1..3a3e391 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 # twitterscraper changelog
 
-# 1.5.0 ( 2020-06-05 )
+# 1.6.0 ( 2020-07-22 )
+## Added
+- PR234: Adds command line argument -dp or --disableproxy to disable to use of proxy when querying.
+## Improved
+- PR261: Improve logging; there is no ts_logger file, logger is initiated in main.py and query.py, loglevel is set via CLI.
+
+# 1.5.0 ( 2020-07-22 )
 ## Fixed
 - PR304: Fixed query.py by adding 'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest' to header value.
 - PR253: Fixed Docker build
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2951266..4de0e3e 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='twitterscraper',
-    version='1.5.0',
+    version='1.6.0',
     description='Tool for scraping Tweets',
     url='https://github.com/taspinar/twitterscraper',
     author=['Ahmet Taspinar', 'Lasse Schuirmann'],
diff --git a/twitterscraper/__init__.py b/twitterscraper/__init__.py
index 5622912..b3348fe 100644
--- a/twitterscraper/__init__.py
+++ b/twitterscraper/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Twitter Scraper tool
 """
 
-__version__ = '1.5.0'
+__version__ = '1.6.0'
 __author__ = 'Ahmet Taspinar'
 __license__ = 'MIT'