diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 989639cf..75bad660 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Description: High-performance 'MongoDB' client based on 'libmongoc' and 'jsonlit
     Includes support for aggregation, indexing, map-reduce, streaming, encryption,
     enterprise authentication. The online user manual provides an overview of the 
     available methods in the package: <https://jeroen.github.io/mongolite/>.
-Version: 1.5.9000
+Version: 1.6
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jeroen", "Ooms", ,"jeroen@berkeley.edu", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("MongoDB, Inc", role = "cph", comment = "Bundled mongo-c-driver, see AUTHORS file")
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d9aadc0e..e92b43c5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  - Collection and cursor pointers now protect parent from GC
  - Make internal functions static
  - interate object gains a json() method
+ - Experimental GridFS support
 
 1.5
  - Change default value of 'filters' to NULL for MongoDB < 3.4