diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 4f1f7cd..6886e05 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [6.0.0] - 2025-08-08
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - fix root-path handling when setting via env var or on app instance
@@ -15,6 +17,7 @@
 - rename `POSTGRES_PASS` to `PGPASSWORD` in config **breaking change**
 - rename `POSTGRES_PORT` to `PGPORT` in config **breaking change**
 - rename `POSTGRES_DBNAME` to `PGDATABASE` in config **breaking change**
+
   ```python
   from stac_fastapi.pgstac.config import PostgresSettings
 
@@ -56,6 +59,7 @@
 - add `write_postgres_settings` option in `stac_fastapi.pgstac.db.connect_to_db` function to set specific settings for the `writer` DB connection pool
 - add specific error message when trying to create `Item` with null geometry (not supported by PgSTAC)
 - add support for Patch in transactions extension
+- CORS authentication setting
 
 ### removed
 
@@ -477,7 +481,8 @@ As a part of this release, this repository was extracted from the main
 
 - First PyPi release!
 
-[Unreleased]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/5.0.3..main>
+[Unreleased]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/6.0.0..main>
+[6.0.0]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/5.0.3..6.0.0>
 [5.0.3]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/5.0.2..5.0.3>
 [5.0.2]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/5.0.1..5.0.2>
 [5.0.1]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/5.0.0..5.0.1>
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a1ef0ca..09b254e 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-5.0.2
+6.0.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 48d3d60..7e563e1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ ignore = [
 
 
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "5.0.2"
+current_version = "6.0.0"
 parse = """(?x)
     (?P<major>\\d+)\\.
     (?P<minor>\\d+)\\.
diff --git a/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py b/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
index 5d558c4..a93f9c3 100644
--- a/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
+++ b/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """library version."""
 
-__version__ = "5.0.2"
+__version__ = "6.0.0"