diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 7ffdf37..af96d27 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -11,3 +11,7 @@ Committers:
 Contributions by:
 
   Frederik Wagner  <fnerdwq@googlemail.com>
+  Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden <ewoud@kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>
+  Jan Orel <jorel@opennebula.io>
+  Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@gmail.com>
+
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 94cbe30..5a55dd2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+0.6.0 - 2024-08-07
+  - Updated ruby bindings that behave more Ruby-ish
+  - Fix errors and warnings during build process
+  - Minor updates to README.md
+  - Update ruby-augeas.spec from current Fedora 39 spec file
+
 0.5.0 - 2013-03-12
   - add libxml2 headers and library to Makefile
   - add libxml2-devel build req to rpm spec
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7721682..61d0e73 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+![ruby-augeas ci build status](../../actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)
+
 # Ruby bindings for augeas
 
-The class Augeas provides bindings to [Augeas](http://augeas.net) library.
+The class Augeas provides bindings to [Augeas](https://augeas.net) library.
 
 
 ## Building
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ On Fedora, you can do that simply by running
 dnf install augeas-devel pkgconfig
 ```
 
-On MacOS (OSX), you need to set up [Homebrew](http://brew.sh/) and then run
+On MacOS (OSX), you need to set up [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) and then run
 ```
 brew install augeas pkg-config
 ```
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 0f3da58..3d91ef7 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ require 'rubygems/package_task'
 
 PKG_NAME='ruby-augeas'
 GEM_NAME=PKG_NAME # we'd like 'augeas' but that makes RPM fail
-PKG_VERSION='0.5.0'
+PKG_VERSION='0.6.0'
 EXT_CONF='ext/augeas/extconf.rb'
 MAKEFILE="ext/augeas/Makefile"
 AUGEAS_MODULE="ext/augeas/_augeas.so"