diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4dee206..2503e84 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.1.6
+
+* [CHORE] update README with links to [documentation](https://techouse.github.io/qs_codec/)
+
 ## 0.1.5
 
 * [CHORE] added Sphinx [documentation](https://techouse.github.io/qs_codec/)
diff --git a/src/qs_codec/__init__.py b/src/qs_codec/__init__.py
index 1a3f4e1..d8ad719 100644
--- a/src/qs_codec/__init__.py
+++ b/src/qs_codec/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """A query string encoding and decoding library for Python. Ported from qs_codec for JavaScript."""
 
-__version__ = "0.1.5"
+__version__ = "0.1.6"
 
 from .decode import decode
 from .encode import encode