diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4437ca60..752ab358 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+# 1.6.0
+
+- [ BREAKING ] Implement Conn as a single atom with extend-clj
+  - Only breaking if you relied on getting listneres from Conn meta
+  - Before: `@(:listeners (meta conn))`
+  - After: `(:listeners @(:atom conn))`
+- prevent explosion of redundant tuples during rule solving #457, thx @RutledgePaulV
+
 # 1.5.4
 
 - Fixed: `:xform` is not called on ref attributes #455
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5c19aa21..a57df2cd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ The intention with DataScript is to be a basic building block in client-side app
 
 ```clj
 ;; lein
-[datascript "1.5.4"]
+[datascript "1.6.0"]
 ```
 ```clj
 ;; deps.edn
-datascript/datascript {:mvn/version "1.5.4"}
+datascript/datascript {:mvn/version "1.6.0"}
 ```
 
 Important! If you are using shadow-cljs, add
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ For more examples, see [our acceptance test suite](test/datascript/test/).
 DataScript can be used from any JS engine without additional dependencies:
 
 ```html
-<script src="https://github.com/tonsky/datascript/releases/download/1.5.4/datascript-1.5.4.min.js"></script>
+<script src="https://github.com/tonsky/datascript/releases/download/1.6.0/datascript-1.6.0.min.js"></script>
 ```
 
 or as a CommonJS module ([npm page](https://www.npmjs.org/package/datascript)):
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 7d7b3d0c..2102eeb1 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-(def version "1.5.4")
+(def version "1.6.0")
 
 (defproject datascript (str version (System/getenv "DATASCRIPT_CLASSIFIER"))
   :description "An implementation of Datomic in-memory database and Datalog query engine in ClojureScript"
diff --git a/release-js/package.json b/release-js/package.json
index 1f191218..27b693ac 100644
--- a/release-js/package.json
+++ b/release-js/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "datascript",
-  "version": "1.5.4",
+  "version": "1.6.0",
   "description": "Immutable in-memory triplestore with Datalog queries",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/tonsky/datascript",
   "author": "Nikita Prokopov (https://github.com/tonsky)",
diff --git a/release-js/wrapper.prefix b/release-js/wrapper.prefix
index 8be6547a..07f9ddb5 100644
--- a/release-js/wrapper.prefix
+++ b/release-js/wrapper.prefix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Datascript v1.5.4
+ * Datascript v1.6.0
  *
  * Copyright 2014-2021 Nikita Prokopov
  *