diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e12b787e..41079cdb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,47 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.6.0 (2022-02-03)
+
+*   Feature: Add factory methods for common HTML/JSON/plaintext/XML response types.
+    (#439 by @clue)
+
+    ```php
+    $response = React\Http\Response\html("<h1>Hello wörld!</h1>\n");
+    $response = React\Http\Response\json(['message' => 'Hello wörld!']);
+    $response = React\Http\Response\plaintext("Hello wörld!\n");
+    $response = React\Http\Response\xml("<message>Hello wörld!</message>\n");
+    $response = React\Http\Response\redirect('https://reactphp.org/');
+    ```
+
+*   Feature: Expose all status code constants via `Response` class.
+    (#432 by @clue)
+
+    ```php
+    $response = new React\Http\Message\Response(
+        React\Http\Message\Response::STATUS_OK, // 200 OK
+        …
+    );
+    $response = new React\Http\Message\Response(
+        React\Http\Message\Response::STATUS_NOT_FOUND, // 404 Not Found
+        …
+    );
+    ```
+
+*   Feature: Full support for PHP 8.1 release.
+    (#433 by @SimonFrings and #434 by @clue)
+
+*   Feature / Fix: Improve protocol handling for HTTP responses with no body.
+    (#429 and #430 by @clue)
+
+*   Internal refactoring and internal improvements for handling requests and responses.
+    (#422 by @WyriHaximus and #431 by @clue)
+
+*   Improve documentation, update proxy examples, include error reporting in examples.
+    (#420, #424, #426, and #427 by @clue)
+
+*   Update test suite to use default loop.
+    (#438 by @clue)
+
 ## 1.5.0 (2021-08-04)
 
 *   Feature: Update `Browser` signature to take optional `$connector` as first argument and
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 23e4b5fa..8e58aebc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2904,14 +2904,14 @@ new React\Http\Middleware\RequestBodyParserMiddleware(10 * 1024, 100); // 100 fi
 
 ## Install
 
-The recommended way to install this library is [through Composer](https://getcomposer.org).
+The recommended way to install this library is [through Composer](https://getcomposer.org/).
 [New to Composer?](https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md)
 
 This project follows [SemVer](https://semver.org/).
 This will install the latest supported version:
 
 ```bash
-$ composer require react/http:^1.5
+$ composer require react/http:^1.6
 ```
 
 See also the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details about version upgrades.
@@ -2919,12 +2919,12 @@ See also the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for details about version upgrades.
 This project aims to run on any platform and thus does not require any PHP
 extensions and supports running on legacy PHP 5.3 through current PHP 8+ and
 HHVM.
-It's *highly recommended to use PHP 7+* for this project.
+It's *highly recommended to use the latest supported PHP version* for this project.
 
 ## Tests
 
 To run the test suite, you first need to clone this repo and then install all
-dependencies [through Composer](https://getcomposer.org):
+dependencies [through Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):
 
 ```bash
 $ composer install
@@ -2933,7 +2933,7 @@ $ composer install
 To run the test suite, go to the project root and run:
 
 ```bash
-$ php vendor/bin/phpunit
+$ vendor/bin/phpunit
 ```
 
 The test suite also contains a number of functional integration tests that rely
@@ -2941,7 +2941,7 @@ on a stable internet connection.
 If you do not want to run these, they can simply be skipped like this:
 
 ```bash
-$ php vendor/bin/phpunit --exclude-group internet
+$ vendor/bin/phpunit --exclude-group internet
 ```
 
 ## License