diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
index 4d486766b..1e5e48f28 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ env:
   REGISTRY: ghcr.io
   IMAGE_NAME: TissueImageAnalytics/tiatoolbox
   image: ghcr.io/tissueimageanalytics/tiatoolbox
-  TOOLBOX_VER: 1.5.1
+  TOOLBOX_VER: 1.6.0
 
 jobs:
   build-and-push-image:
diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index a279ed361..b3ebd06ef 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ authors:
   given-names: "Shan E Ahmed"
   orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1097-1738"
 title: "TIAToolbox as an end-to-end library for advanced tissue image analytics"
-version: 1.5.1  # TIAToolbox version
+version: 1.6.0  # TIAToolbox version
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5802442
 date-released: 2022-10-20
 url: "https://github.com/TissueImageAnalytics/tiatoolbox"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dbc4df49a..2d29ca7c8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "TIA Centre"
-version = "1.5.1"
+version = "1.6.0"
 description = "test"
 authors = ["TIA Centre <tialab@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>"]
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index efb7f20ec..31d30e5e9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@
     test_suite="tests",
     tests_require=test_requirements,
     url="https://github.com/TissueImageAnalytics/tiatoolbox",
-    version="1.5.1",
+    version="1.6.0",
     zip_safe=False,
 )
diff --git a/tiatoolbox/__init__.py b/tiatoolbox/__init__.py
index 80ad1b4ff..7cc3aa0cf 100644
--- a/tiatoolbox/__init__.py
+++ b/tiatoolbox/__init__.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 __author__ = """TIA Centre"""
 __email__ = "tialab@dcs.warwick.ac.uk"
-__version__ = "1.5.1"
+__version__ = "1.6.0"
 
 # This will set the tiatoolbox external data
 # default to be the user home folder, should work on both Window and Unix/Linux