diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 600835d..b5b966f 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "0.5.0"
+    ".": "0.6.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2ba53f6..0782560 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ The format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/) and
 
 From v0.2.1 onwards, entries in this file are generated by [release-please](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please) from conventional commits; earlier entries (v0.2.0 and below) were written by hand.
 
+## [0.6.0](https://github.com/StackOneHQ/stackvox/compare/v0.5.0...v0.6.0) (2026-07-08)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* add speech normalization for md files ([#30](https://github.com/StackOneHQ/stackvox/issues/30)) ([f7afddf](https://github.com/StackOneHQ/stackvox/commit/f7afddfc7db13988b699e6bfc10d7feeb151c003))
+* stream synthesis sentence-by-sentence for low-latency playback ([#31](https://github.com/StackOneHQ/stackvox/issues/31)) ([f7d4a70](https://github.com/StackOneHQ/stackvox/commit/f7d4a708ad5367f7f4715c6fb32e370a33c0ea44))
+
 ## [0.5.0](https://github.com/StackOneHQ/stackvox/compare/v0.4.0...v0.5.0) (2026-04-30)
 
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 887198e..865a2ac 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "stackvox"
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.6.0"
 description = "Offline TTS library using Kokoro-82M"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"