diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index e223d3faa725..90591aa49567 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-Announcing: KornShell 93u+m/1.0.5
+Announcing: KornShell 93u+m/1.0.6
 https://github.com/ksh93/ksh
 
-This is the fifth ksh 93u+m/1.0 bugfix release, again with a wide range of
-bugfixes and robustness enhancements. Many thanks to all contributors for
-their hard work!
+Sooner than expected after the fifth, here is the sixth ksh 93u+m/1.0 bugfix
+release. 93u+m/1.0.5 brought a wide range of bugfixes and robustness
+enhancements, but also introduced a serious regression in pathname
+expansion, so that previous release is WITHDRAWN and should not be used.
 
 Further below is an overview of the main changes. For greater detail, see
 the NEWS file in the distribution. For complete detail, see the git(1)
@@ -69,6 +70,15 @@ Feel free to use Discussions to introduce yourself to the community.
 You can also join the mailing list/Google group at:
 https://groups.google.com/g/korn-shell
 
+### MAIN CHANGES between ksh 93u+m/1.0.5 and 93u+m/1.0.6 ###
+
+- Fixed a serious regression in pathname expansion where quoted wildcard
+  characters were incorrectly expanded if a pattern contains both a brace
+  expansion and a variable expansion.
+- Fixed a bug where the command to launch a full-screen editor (^X^E in
+  emacs and 'v' in vi) could cause the wrong command line to be edited
+  if two shell sessions share a .sh_history file.
+
 ### MAIN CHANGES between ksh 93u+m/1.0.4 and 93u+m/1.0.5 ###
 
 - Fixed various bugs causing crashes.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 44fd8e036f58..7835466b9fe2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Uppercase BUG_* IDs are shell bug IDs as used by the Modernish shell library.
 
 2023-06-13:
 
+- Release 1.0.6.
+
 - Fixed a serious regression in pathname expansion where quoted wildcard
   characters were incorrectly expanded if a pattern contains both a brace
   expansion and a variable expansion.
diff --git a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
index 4a67b26c059c..97ae615f9ce5 100644
--- a/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
+++ b/src/cmd/ksh93/include/version.h
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 #include <releaseflags.h>
 
 #define SH_RELEASE_FORK	"93u+m"		/* only change if you develop a new ksh93 fork */
-#define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.6-alpha"	/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
-#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2023-06-12"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
+#define SH_RELEASE_SVER	"1.0.6"		/* semantic version number: https://semver.org */
+#define SH_RELEASE_DATE	"2023-06-13"	/* must be in this format for $((.sh.version)) */
 #define SH_RELEASE_CPYR	"(c) 2020-2023 Contributors to ksh " SH_RELEASE_FORK
 
 /* Scripts sometimes field-split ${.sh.version}, so don't change amount of whitespace. */