diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d6a7c76..b3ae8ba 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     author="Ryan Gibson",
     author_email="ryan.alex.gibson@gmail.com",
     name="stego-lsb",
-    version="1.5.4",
+    version="1.6.0",
     description="Least Significant Bit Steganography for bitmap images (.bmp "
                 "and .png), WAV sound files, and byte sequences. Simple LSB "
                 "Steganalysis (LSB extraction) for bitmap images.",