diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 299e347..b07be68 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,37 @@
+1.5.6 (2023-10-02)
+=====
+- Update copyright year
+- Rounded legend icons
+- Reopen process window maximized when closed maximized
+- Properly finalize global objects in main
+- Add missing include
+- Fix more memory leaks
+- Fix memory leak
+- Fix CSS related deprecation warnings
+- Ignore GtkStatusIcon related deprecations
+- Make libx11 optional, guard x11 code paths
+- Change type so that memory values are correct (Fixes #65)
+- settings-dialog: Fix untranslated label
+- Add icons at missing sizes, clean up SVG metadata
+- Add minimal support for Wayland
+- Fix graph drop off on the right side
+- Change graph peak variable to double
+- Remove timeout before exiting main loop
+- build: Add GLib requirement
+- Do not treat missing swap as error on OpenBSD and NetBSD
+- Fix process filter crash caused by the use of an uninitialized 
+variable
+- Translation Updates:
+  Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque,
+  Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong),
+  Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian,
+  English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish,
+  French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
+  Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean,
+  Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Persian
+  (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian,
+  Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur
+
 1.5.5 (2022-12-16)
 =====
 - Stick process view at the top in the absence of user action
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index f1e038b..12c68ff 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ dnl *** Version information ***
 dnl ***************************
 m4_define([taskmanager_version_major], [1])
 m4_define([taskmanager_version_minor], [5])
-m4_define([taskmanager_version_micro], [5])
+m4_define([taskmanager_version_micro], [6])
 m4_define([taskmanager_version_build], [@REVISION@])
-m4_define([taskmanager_version_tag], [git])
+m4_define([taskmanager_version_tag], [])
 m4_define([taskmanager_version], [taskmanager_version_major().taskmanager_version_minor().taskmanager_version_micro()ifelse(taskmanager_version_tag(), [git], [taskmanager_version_tag()-taskmanager_version_build()], [taskmanager_version_tag()])])
 
 dnl ***************************