diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 92056049..a48ad88b 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,27 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+## 0.6.0 (2023-09-13)
+
+### Special Notes
+
+- update mesa dependency to v2.1
+
+### Improvements
+
+- use Pathlib [#149](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/149) (thanks @catherinedevlin for contributing)
+
+- ***Docs updates***
+  - docs: use pydata theme [#152](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/152)
+  - docs: use myst-nb to compile notebooks at build time [#159](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/159)
+
+- ***Example updates***
+  - remove examples and their tests [#163](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/163)
+
+### Fixes
+
+- fix AttributeError in GeoSpace.agents_at() [#165](https://github.com/projectmesa/mesa-geo/pull/165) (thanks @SongshGeo for reporting)
+
 ## 0.5.0 (2023-03-09)
 
 ### Improvements
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index f376364e..741edf53 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.6.0"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "0.5.0"
+release = "0.6.0"
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/mesa_geo/__init__.py b/mesa_geo/__init__.py
index 575b9169..2b2fb38c 100644
--- a/mesa_geo/__init__.py
+++ b/mesa_geo/__init__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 ]
 
 __title__ = "Mesa-Geo"
-__version__ = "0.5.0"
+__version__ = "0.6.0"
 __license__ = "Apache 2.0"
 _this_year = datetime.datetime.now(tz=datetime.timezone.utc).date().year
 __copyright__ = f"Copyright {_this_year} Project Mesa-Geo Team"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dacadd08..88bfa0a5 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 requires = [
     "setuptools",
     "wheel",
-    "mesa~=1.1.0",
+    "mesa~=2.1.0",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"