diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Changes b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Changes
index 3d5ba8a85556..d6cb52a53348 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Changes
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Changes
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Revision history for Perl extension AI::MXNet
+1.6     Fri Jan 28 03:50:00 PM EST 2022
         - Update mapping between PDL and MX types - Zakariyya Mughal
         - Upgrade minimum PDL dependency to PDL v2.064 for
           int8 (PDL: sbyte) type - Zakariyya Mughal
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.json b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.json
index ed4fd68536c5..4ece2200c606 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.json
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.json
@@ -51,5 +51,5 @@
       }
    },
    "release_status" : "stable",
-   "version" : "1.5"
+   "version" : "1.6"
 }
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.yml b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.yml
index ee3f8a61408b..c79929a1a829 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.yml
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.yml
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ requires:
   IO::Zlib: '0'
   JSON::PP: '0'
   parent: '0'
-version: '1.5'
+version: '1.6'
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Makefile.PL b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Makefile.PL
index 17cfc01396d7..54ce774ad836 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Makefile.PL
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Makefile.PL
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
     "GraphViz" => "2.14"
   },
   "TEST_REQUIRES" => {},
-  "VERSION" => "1.5",
+  "VERSION" => "1.6",
   "test" => {
     "TESTS" => "t/*.t"
   }
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/README b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/README
index 57d9e4a7b7e8..d2c5b772d369 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/README
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This archive contains the distribution AI-MXNet,
-version 1.5:
+version 1.6:
 
   Perl interface to MXNet machine learning library
 
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet.pm b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet.pm
index 0778da8440a8..23282fd90c0b 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet.pm
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet.pm
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ use AI::MXNet::Gluon 'gluon';
 use AI::MXNet::NDArray::Sparse;
 use AI::MXNet::Symbol::Sparse;
 use AI::MXNet::Engine 'engine';
-our $VERSION = '1.5';
+our $VERSION = '1.6';
 
 sub cpu { AI::MXNet::Context->cpu($_[1]//0) }
 sub cpu_pinned { AI::MXNet::Context->cpu_pinned($_[1]//0) }