diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 55ddd214..fe6b50ae 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Changelog for package rcutils
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Forthcoming
------------
+6.0.0 (2022-09-13)
+------------------
 * Optimize rcutils_logging_get_logger_effective_level() (`#381 <https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/issues/381>`_)
 * Change syntax __VAR_ARGS_\_ to __VA_ARGS_\_ (`#376 <https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/issues/376>`_)
 * Fix a bug in hash_map_get_next_key_and_data. (`#375 <https://github.com/ros2/rcutils/issues/375>`_)
diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
index 4fe8bf5e..359f31db 100644
--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <?xml-model href="http://download.ros.org/schema/package_format2.xsd" schematypens="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"?>
 <package format="2">
   <name>rcutils</name>
-  <version>5.2.0</version>
+  <version>6.0.0</version>
   <description>Package containing various utility types and functions for C</description>
   <maintainer email="clalancette@openrobotics.org">Chris Lalancette</maintainer>
   <maintainer email="alejandro@openrobotics.org">Alejandro Hernandez Cordero</maintainer>