diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4d7c338c..4f5e731d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.6.0] - 2026-11-05
+
 ### Bugs Fixed
 - Isolate Agent365 durable delivery backoff by tenant, shared across that tenant's agents and live/replay paths. Continue replay past retryable failures and backed-off tenants without spending the attempt limit on deferred records; bound replay scans and preserve active backoff during registry eviction.
 - Skip excluded durable records and backed-off tenants before leasing so blocked prefixes larger than the scan budget cannot starve healthy tenants across replay passes. Quarantine blank-tenant records before replay, retaining post-claim content validation.
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 62ebae70..d1968078 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@microsoft/opentelemetry",
-  "version": "1.5.0",
+  "version": "1.6.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@microsoft/opentelemetry",
-      "version": "1.5.0",
+      "version": "1.6.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@azure-rest/core-client": "^2.8.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d9a1f4cc..23860824 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@microsoft/opentelemetry",
   "author": "Microsoft Corporation",
-  "version": "1.5.0",
+  "version": "1.6.0",
   "description": "Microsoft OpenTelemetry distribution for JavaScript/TypeScript",
   "main": "./dist/commonjs/index.js",
   "module": "./dist/esm/index.js",
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index b1bfcb41..633ab2a5 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import type { A365Options } from "./a365/index.js";
 /**
  * Microsoft OpenTelemetry distribution version.
  */
-export const MICROSOFT_OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION = "1.5.0";
+export const MICROSOFT_OPENTELEMETRY_VERSION = "1.6.0";
 
 /**
  * Microsoft OpenTelemetry Options