diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index b7e23fc5c35..b6d18daaa49 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1.1.6 (February 7, 2020)
+========================
+Update NiBabel pinned version.
+
+* MAINT: Update nibabel's pin to >=3.0.1
+
 1.1.5 (February 6, 2020)
 ========================
 A refactor of recently introduced spaces/references/spatial-references objects,
@@ -6,9 +12,9 @@ and some methods for upstream pipelines.
 * ENH: Revision of spaces module for consistency (#457)
 * ENH: Add BIDS output version checker (#456)
 * ENH: Standard space querying (#455)
-* ENH: Add cache to SpatialReferences (#453)
+* ENH: Add cache to ``SpatialReferences`` (#453)
 * ENH: Add helper function for cleaning a directory (#454)
-* FIX: Parsing of floats in ResampleImageBySpacing (#452)
+* FIX: Parsing of floats in ``ResampleImageBySpacing`` (#452)
 
 1.1.4 (January 28, 2020)
 ========================
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 8bea4bd5f7e..b04a0bea02b 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ install_requires =
     jinja2
     matplotlib >= 2.2.0 ; python_version >= "3.6"
     matplotlib >= 2.2.0, < 3.1 ; python_version < "3.6"
-    nibabel ~= 3.0.0rc1
+    nibabel >= 3.0.1
     nilearn >= 0.2.6, != 0.5.0, != 0.5.1
     nipype >= 1.3.1
     packaging