diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 26ecdf7..008a3ca 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Changes from 0.5.2 to 0.6.0
+---------------------------
+
+* Moved from TemplateHaskell to a custom pre-processor for code-generation.
+  This is necessary because:
+  - TemplateHaskell is really slow for large data structures
+  - TemplateHaskell doesn't yet support the MagicHash extension that is useful for the library
+* Use efficient, static data structures for encoding/decoding
+* Fixed bug in UTF-8 that could call 'chr' with bad arguments
+
 Changes from 0.5 to 0.5.2
 -------------------------
 
diff --git a/encoding.cabal b/encoding.cabal
index 3e220a9..20852b8 100644
--- a/encoding.cabal
+++ b/encoding.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:		encoding
-Version:	0.5.2
+Version:	0.6.0
 Author:		Henning Günther
 Maintainer:	h.guenther@tu-bs.de
 License:	BSD3