diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a3bb255fbdb..c77f17bb0e3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 **Note: we move fast, but still we preserve 0.1 version (one feature release) back compatibility.**
 
-## [0.6.0] - 2021-10-DD
+## [0.6.0] - 2021-10-28
 
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/torchmetrics/__about__.py b/torchmetrics/__about__.py
index ed3caea89b2..c01d1134307 100644
--- a/torchmetrics/__about__.py
+++ b/torchmetrics/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.6.0rc1"
+__version__ = "0.6.0"
 __author__ = "PyTorchLightning et al."
 __author_email__ = "name@pytorchlightning.ai"
 __license__ = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/torchmetrics/setup_tools.py b/torchmetrics/setup_tools.py
index 68c361c60be..0739412de15 100644
--- a/torchmetrics/setup_tools.py
+++ b/torchmetrics/setup_tools.py
@@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ def _load_requirements(path_dir: str, file_name: str = "requirements.txt", comme
     for ln in lines:
         # filer all comments
         if comment_char in ln:
-            ln = ln[: ln.index(comment_char)].strip()
+            char_idx = min(ln.index(ch) for ch in comment_char)
+            ln = ln[:char_idx].strip()
         # skip directly installed dependencies
-        if ln.startswith("http") or ln.startswith("git") or ln.startswith("-r"):
+        if ln.startswith("http") or ln.startswith("git") or ln.startswith("-r") or "@" in ln:
             continue
         if ln:  # if requirement is not empty
             reqs.append(ln)