diff --git a/.chloggen/update-dotnet.yaml b/.chloggen/update-dotnet.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2e399aae75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.chloggen/update-dotnet.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: enhancement
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. agent, clusterReceiver, gateway, operator, chart, other)
+component: operator
+# A brief description of the change. Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Bump dotnet to v1.6.0 in helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1327]
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext:
diff --git a/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml b/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
index b37cf8ed92..e298428e78 100644
--- a/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
+++ b/examples/enable-operator-and-auto-instrumentation/rendered_manifests/operator/instrumentation.yaml
@@ -36,12 +36,12 @@ spec:
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
         value: splunk.zc.method=autoinstrumentation-apache-httpd:1.0.4
   dotnet:
-    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-dotnet/splunk-otel-dotnet:v1.5.0
+    image: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-dotnet/splunk-otel-dotnet:v1.6.0
     env:
       - name: OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_PLUGINS
         value: "Splunk.OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation.Plugin,Splunk.OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation"
       - name: OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES
-        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-dotnet:v1.5.0
+        value: splunk.zc.method=splunk-otel-dotnet:v1.6.0
       - name: SPLUNK_OTEL_AGENT
         valueFrom:
           fieldRef:
diff --git a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
index 1f3e2e43f3..496158d48f 100644
--- a/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
+++ b/helm-charts/splunk-otel-collector/values.yaml
@@ -1209,7 +1209,7 @@ operator:
         tag: v2.8.0
       dotnet:
         repository: ghcr.io/signalfx/splunk-otel-dotnet/splunk-otel-dotnet
-        tag: v1.5.0
+        tag: v1.6.0
         env:
           - name: OTEL_DOTNET_AUTO_PLUGINS
             value: Splunk.OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation.Plugin,Splunk.OpenTelemetry.AutoInstrumentation