diff --git a/docs/release_notes.md b/docs/release_notes.md
index 02886c1..c8f12ba 100644
--- a/docs/release_notes.md
+++ b/docs/release_notes.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # Release Notes
+## 0.1.6
+- Fix an issue that caused inf and nan when using LSE omnibus embedding
 ## 0.1.5
 - Fix a bug in omnibus embedding where augmentation happened before the graphs were reduced to common nodes
 ## 0.1.4
diff --git a/topologic/version/version.py b/topologic/version/version.py
index 13be29b..07b7d8e 100644
--- a/topologic/version/version.py
+++ b/topologic/version/version.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ __all__: List[str] = ["version", "name"]
 name = "topologic"
 
 # manually updated
-__semver = "0.1.5"
+__semver = "0.1.6"
 #  full version (may be same as __semver on release)
 __version_file = "version.txt"