diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4151e95..24d869f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 opustags changelog
 ==================
 
+1.6.0 - 2021-01-01
+------------------
+
+- UTF-8 conversion errors are now fatal.
+- Introduce --raw for disabling encoding conversions.
+- Improve platform compatibility.
+
+This also happens to be opustags’s 8-year anniversary!
+
 1.5.1 - 2020-11-21
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4bcf0e1..9f6b363 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.9)
 
 project(
 	opustags
-	VERSION 1.5.1
+	VERSION 1.6.0
 	LANGUAGES CXX
 )
 
diff --git a/src/cli.cc b/src/cli.cc
index 655fab3..b390ebd 100644
--- a/src/cli.cc
+++ b/src/cli.cc
@@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ ot::status ot::print_comments(const std::list<std::string>& comments, FILE* outp
 {
 	static ot::encoding_converter from_utf8("UTF-8", "");
 	std::string local;
-	bool bad_comments = false;
 	bool has_newline = false;
 	bool has_control = false;
 	for (const std::string& utf8_comment : comments) {