From 51b03be66ae1643705f1757a5f1a954a53b14609 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Forsyth <forsyth2@llnl.gov>
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2026 16:40:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Bump to 1.6.0rc1

---
 setup.py           | 2 +-
 tbump.toml         | 2 +-
 zstash/__init__.py | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 67df2e8e..4218eb17 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="zstash",
-    version="1.5.0",
+    version="1.6.0rc1",
     author="Ryan Forsyth, Chris Golaz, Zeshawn Shaheen",
     author_email="forsyth2@llnl.gov, golaz1@llnl.gov, shaheen2@llnl.gov",
     description="Long term HPSS archiving software for E3SM",
diff --git a/tbump.toml b/tbump.toml
index 3e6a7680..5cd38f59 100644
--- a/tbump.toml
+++ b/tbump.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 github_url = "https://github.com/E3SM-Project/zstash.git"
 
 [version]
-current = "1.5.0"
+current = "1.6.0rc1"
 
 # Example of a semver regexp with support for PEP 440
 # release candidates.Make sure this matches current_version
diff --git a/zstash/__init__.py b/zstash/__init__.py
index 943b9110..84e895cb 100644
--- a/zstash/__init__.py
+++ b/zstash/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "v1.5.0"
+__version__ = "v1.6.0rc1"