diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: redcapcustodian
 Type: Package
 Title: System data cleaning for REDCap
-Version: 1.5.0
+Version: 1.6.0
 Authors@R: c(
   person("Philip", "Chase",
         email = "pbc@ufl.edu",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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@@ -3,6 +3,19 @@ All notable changes to the redcapcustodian package and its contained scripts wil
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 
+## [1.6.0] - 2023-02-21
+### Added
+- Add randomization management functions and a sample ETL (Philip Chase)
+- Add batch_size parm to dbx calls in sync_table_2 (Philip Chase)
+- Add batch_size parm to dbx calls in sync_table Prevents possible error: Expression tree is too large (maximum depth 1000) (Kyle Chesney)
+
+### Changed
+- Update testing image used at github (Philip Chase)
+- Eschew deprecated tidyselect features (Philip Chase)
+- Modernize tests of sync_table_2 (Philip Chase)
+- Address fatal bug in sync_table caused when delete = T but there are no records to delete (Kyle Chesney)
+
+
 ## [1.5.0] - 2023-01-25
 ### Added
 - Create write_summary_metrics function, corresponding schema and test (Kyle Chesney)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
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@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.0
+1.6.0