diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 59d8b8c..5cf4f43 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 CHANGES
 =======
 
-2.1.x
------
+2.1.6 (2020-03-17)
+------------------
 
-2.1.5
------
+- drop support for Python 2.7
+- support Github Actions
+- update dev-dependencies
+
+2.1.5 (2019-09-27)
+------------------
 
 - update language models (uchardet)
 - add iso8859-2 test but disabled it
diff --git a/src/cchardet/version.py b/src/cchardet/version.py
index cfb007c..da04cc3 100644
--- a/src/cchardet/version.py
+++ b/src/cchardet/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '2.1.5'
+__version__ = '2.1.6'