diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 243d034..232093f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 setup(
     name='pdf2image',
 
-    version='1.5.4',
+    version='1.6.0',
 
     description='A wrapper around the pdftoppm and pdftocairo command line tools to convert PDF to a PIL Image list.',
     long_description=long_description,