diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f061d065f..46b31205d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Jeremy Lainé <jeremy.laine@m4x.org>
 SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
 -->
 
+QXmpp 1.5.6 (Feb 4, 2024)
+-------------------------
+
+Changes:
+ - Behaviour change: sendIq() automatically parses stanza errors (returned as QXmppError) (@lnjX)
+ - CMake: "QXmpp" legacy cmake package is now only installed for Qt 5 builds (@lnjX)
+ - EncryptedFileSharingProvider: Fix wrong cipher set in sent file share element (@lnjX)
+ - Fix SCE parsing mode when parsing encrypted messages (@lnjX)
+ - Fix file encryption with QCA issues (@lnjX)
+ - Fix picking by strength of hashing algorithms (@lnjX)
+ - Fix github ci (@lnjX)
+ - Add unit tests for all file encryption ciphers (@lnjX)
+
 QXmpp 1.5.5 (Apr 30, 2023)
 --------------------------
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ef46d3501..159a27eb3 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
 
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.7)
-project(qxmpp VERSION 1.5.5)
+project(qxmpp VERSION 1.5.6)
 
 set(SO_VERSION 4)