diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 786cf8f..32d3ec3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@
 /bstr-1.3.0.crate
 /bstr-1.4.0.crate
 /bstr-1.5.0.crate
+/bstr-1.6.0.crate
diff --git a/bstr-fix-metadata.diff b/bstr-fix-metadata.diff
index cdd304f..078c0ea 100644
--- a/bstr-fix-metadata.diff
+++ b/bstr-fix-metadata.diff
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
---- bstr-1.5.0/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
-+++ bstr-1.5.0/Cargo.toml	2023-05-22T21:31:16.267365+00:00
+--- bstr-1.6.0/Cargo.toml	1970-01-01T00:00:01+00:00
++++ bstr-1.6.0/Cargo.toml	2023-07-05T19:10:10.323406+00:00
 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
      "text-processing",
      "encoding",
diff --git a/rust-bstr.spec b/rust-bstr.spec
index bd5783b..eeff44e 100644
--- a/rust-bstr.spec
+++ b/rust-bstr.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 %global crate bstr
 
 Name:           rust-bstr
-Version:        1.5.0
+Version:        1.6.0
 Release:        %autorelease
 Summary:        String type that is not required to be valid UTF-8
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 9fda513..e817ab6 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (bstr-1.5.0.crate) = 6bd1be4fd785f7e576b4ae4a7203b1c1ff698d01f56b1f09b40dc1629f0ba7c958bfa9f6ca3cceef4fb51120707ae0fac9622126e1cdc477ee0802a57b34cd13
+SHA512 (bstr-1.6.0.crate) = 094e914ae7087caa6f340a1e26d0ca94927b1c92f0d7f907e4472b3b5c142b63b14759056d537d04be6a7901103fdd47b14f3c6315f68e8c8266155d133cb1dc