preparing for v1.6 release

docs/changelog.rst

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Changelog
 #########
 
-1.6 (April 28, 2016)
+1.6 (April 30, 2016)
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 * Added a new ``move`` return value policy that triggers C++11 move semantics.
   The automatic return value policy falls back to this case whenever a rvalue
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Changelog
 * Significantly more general GIL state routines that are used instead of
   Python's troublesome ``PyGILState_Ensure`` and ``PyGILState_Release`` API
 * Redesign of opaque types that drastically simplifies their usage
+* Extended ability to pass values of type ``[const] void *``
 * ``keep_alive`` fix: don't fail when there is no patient
 * ``functional.h``: acquire the GIL before calling a Python function
 * Added Python RAII type wrappers ``none`` and ``iterable``

pybind11/_version.py

-version_info = (1, 6, 'dev0')
+version_info = (1, 6)
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, version_info))