diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7c35167..f98a040 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Changes in version 1.6 (Wed, 19 Apr 2023)
+
+This is bugfix release agains 1.5. In between 1.4 and 1.5, the "make
+check" target was migrated to using
+[shelltest](https://github.com/simonmichael/shelltestrunner), but the
+`make dist` and `distcheck` targets were no, so the built archive was
+actually not. This only fixes that and has no functional code changes
+from 1.5.
+
 ## Changes in version 1.5 (Wed, 19 Apr 2023)
 
 Trivial release:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ee8f58c..ce66801 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ DISTFILES = \
 TESTFILES = $(wildcard tests/*.test)
 TESTDATAFILES = $(wildcard tests/data/*.data)
 
-VERSION=1.5
+VERSION=1.6
 RELEASEDIR=mt-st-$(VERSION)
 TARFILE=mt-st-$(VERSION).tar.gz