diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b084fad..9254310 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 This CHANGELOG follows the format listed [here](https://github.com/sensu-plugins/community/blob/master/HOW_WE_CHANGELOG.md)
 
 ## [Unreleased]
-### Changed
+### Breaking Changes
 - bump version of rest-client to 2.0.2.  This should fix the issue where multiple versions of that gem would be loaded when running the rabbitmq plugin alongside the sensu http plugin. (@mattdoller)
 
 ## [5.4.0] - 2018-06-21
@@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ NOTE: this release changes the option flags in check-rabbitmq-node-health.rb to
 - Remove copy paste errors in the Readme
 - Removed Rubygems require Ruby 1.8.7 backwards compatibility from all plugins
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/compare/5.4.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/compare/6.0.0...HEAD
+[6.0.0]: https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/compare/5.4.0...6.0.0
 [5.4.0]: https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/compare/5.3.0...5.4.0
 [5.3.0]: https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/compare/5.2.0...5.3.0
 [5.2.0]:https://github.com/sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/\compare/5.1.0...5.2.0
diff --git a/lib/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/version.rb b/lib/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/version.rb
index 3b82568..b2d8c35 100644
--- a/lib/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/version.rb
+++ b/lib/sensu-plugins-rabbitmq/version.rb
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 module SensuPluginsRabbitMQ
   module Version
-    MAJOR = 5
-    MINOR = 4
+    MAJOR = 6
+    MINOR = 0
     PATCH = 0
 
     VER_STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, PATCH].compact.join('.')