diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index be1ca13fa..1057df45c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,50 @@
+1.5.3 -> 1.6.0
+	- This is an official release for Tizen (6.0-M2) and Android developers. 1.6.y will be an LTS released with hotfixes in the future. We will move on to 1.7.0 after this release.
+
+	- Tizen
+		- Minor API and documentation updates
+		- APIs for custom filters
+		- C API latency optimization
+
+	- Android
+		- Java API latency optimization
+		- nnfw (ONE) runtime support, custom-easy support.
+		- Size optimization for products.
+
+	- Major features
+		- Plug-and-play sub-plugins for converters
+		- Flatbuf --> NNStreamer converter
+		- Protobuf --> NNStreamer converter
+		- NNStreamer --> Flatbuf decoder
+		- NNStreamer-Check utility for nnstreamer developers.
+		- Decoders accept dynamic configurations.
+		- Converters may emit multi-tensor streams.
+		- NNShark subproject being integrated.
+		- Tensorflow-lite 2 support
+
+	- Minor features
+		- Decoder subplugins w/ NEON support (depth/deeplab)
+		- Unregister for custom-easy
+		- Version fetching mechanisms.
+		- More profiling capabilities.
+		- Edge-AI examples and tests.
+		- NNFW support for latest versions and more tensor types.
+		- Product-wise size and build-time optimization.
+		- Memory operation optimization.
+		- More exception handling routines.
+		- NEON and other CPU optimization techniques determined in run-time.
+
+	- Fixes
+		- Each instance of a custom filter or subplugin now have independent properties.
+		- Decoder (image-seg), performance profiling property of filter
+		- Transform negotiation errors, auto-fw filter, repo-sink, memory leaks
+		- Build-deps cleaned up, Code-style check setup for C++,
+		- Edge-TPU & Movidius subplugins tested and fixed.
+		- Packaging issues, permission issues of sensor-src (Tizen)
+		- Caffe2/Pytorch w/ Protobuf issues. Per-arch build and test issues.
+		- EOS handling with APIs.
+		- 0 SVACE and 0 Coverity issues.
+
 1.5.2 -> 1.5.3
 	- Mediapipe's graphs (NNStreamer pipeline equivalent) may be embedded as an element in NNStreamer pipeline
 	- Qualcomm SNPE is supported (tensor-filter subplugin)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f6593a216..6beb560e2 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+nnstreamer (1.6.0.0) unstable xenial bionic; urgency=medium
+
+  * 1.6.0 Release (LTS for Tizen 6.0 M2 / Android-next products)
+
+ -- MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>  Wed, 09 Sep 2020 19:09:53 +0900
+
 nnstreamer (1.5.3.0) unstable xenial bionic; urgency=medium
 
   * 1.5.3 development starts (1.6.0.RC4)
diff --git a/jni/nnstreamer.mk b/jni/nnstreamer.mk
index d9a9d6c0f..f20ed30b5 100644
--- a/jni/nnstreamer.mk
+++ b/jni/nnstreamer.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ ifndef GSTREAMER_ROOT_ANDROID
 $(error GSTREAMER_ROOT_ANDROID is not defined!)
 endif
 
-NNSTREAMER_VERSION  := 1.5.3
+NNSTREAMER_VERSION  := 1.6.0
 NNSTREAMER_VERSION_MAJOR := $(word 1,$(subst ., ,${NNSTREAMER_VERSION}))
 NNSTREAMER_VERSION_MINOR := $(word 2,$(subst ., ,${NNSTREAMER_VERSION}))
 NNSTREAMER_VERSION_MICRO := $(word 3,$(subst ., ,${NNSTREAMER_VERSION}))
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b5c496f03..00687e4ea 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # If you are using Tizen 5.0+ or Ubuntu/Bionix+, you don't need to mind meson version.
 
 project('nnstreamer', 'c', 'cpp',
-  version: '1.5.3',
+  version: '1.6.0',
   license: ['LGPL'],
   meson_version: '>=0.50.0',
   default_options: [
diff --git a/packaging/nnstreamer.spec b/packaging/nnstreamer.spec
index 8a32b6cef..a225e0268 100644
--- a/packaging/nnstreamer.spec
+++ b/packaging/nnstreamer.spec
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Summary:	gstreamer plugins for neural networks
 # 2. Tizen  : ./packaging/nnstreamer.spec
 # 3. Android: ./jni/nnstreamer.mk
 # 4. Meson  : ./meson.build
-Version:	1.5.3
+Version:	1.6.0
 Release:	0
 Group:		Applications/Multimedia
 Packager:	MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
@@ -859,6 +859,9 @@ cp -r result %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/nnstreamer/unittest/
 %{_bindir}/nnstreamer-check
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Sep 09 2020 MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
+- Release of 1.6.0 (LTS for Tizen 6.0 M2 and Android-next products)
+
 * Thu Jun 04 2020 MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com>
 - Start development of 1.5.3 (1.6.0-RC4)