diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6c18db1b231..5c67ea109f9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,59 +8,38 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
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-## [UnReleased] - 2024-MM-DD
+## [1.6.0] - 2024-11-12
 
 ### Added
 
-- Added `NormalizedRootMeanSquaredError` metric to regression subpackage ([#2442](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2442))
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-- Added `LogAUC` metric to classification package ([#2377](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2377))
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-- Added `NegativePredictiveValue` to classification metrics ([#2433](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2433))
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+- Added audio metric `NISQA` ([#2792](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/metrics/pull/2792))
+- Added classification metric `LogAUC` ([#2377](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2377))
+- Added classification metric `NegativePredictiveValue` ([#2433](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2433))
+- Added regression metric `NormalizedRootMeanSquaredError` ([#2442](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2442))
+- Added segmentation metric `Dice` ([#2725](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2725))
 - Added method `merge_state` to `Metric` ([#2786](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2786))
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-- Added a new audio metric `NISQA` ([#2792](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/metrics/pull/2792))
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-- Added `Dice` metric to segmentation metrics ([#2725](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2725))
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 - Added support for propagation of the autograd graph in ddp setting ([#2754](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2754))
 
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 ### Changed
 
 - Changed naming and input order arguments in `KLDivergence` ([#2800](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2800))
 
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 ### Deprecated
 
 - Deprecated Dice from classification metrics ([#2725](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2725))
 
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 ### Removed
 
 - Changed minimum supported Pytorch version to 2.0 ([#2671](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2671))
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 - Dropped support for Python 3.8 ([#2827](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2827))
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 - Removed `num_outputs` in `R2Score` ([#2800](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2800))
 
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 ### Fixed
 
 - Fixed segmentation `Dice` + `GeneralizedDice` for 2d index tensors ([#2832](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2832))
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 - Fixed mixed results of `rouge_score` with `accumulate='best'` ([#2830](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2830))
 
+---
 
 ## [1.5.2] - 2024-11-07
 
diff --git a/src/torchmetrics/__about__.py b/src/torchmetrics/__about__.py
index 2acf435134a..1eb50499453 100644
--- a/src/torchmetrics/__about__.py
+++ b/src/torchmetrics/__about__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-__version__ = "1.6.0dev"
+__version__ = "1.6.0"
 __author__ = "Lightning-AI et al."
 __author_email__ = "name@pytorchlightning.ai"
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"
-__copyright__ = f"Copyright (c) 2020-2023, {__author__}."
+__copyright__ = f"Copyright (c) 2020-2024, {__author__}."
 __homepage__ = "https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics"
 __docs__ = "PyTorch native Metrics"
 __docs_url__ = "https://lightning.ai/docs/torchmetrics/stable/"