From 14ba72695f9f2246b370d82d4f4299e1969a64a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: botpub <rubendibattista@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 00:37:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] MNT: Prepare changelog for 1.6.0 RLS

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 RELEASE.rst | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELEASE.rst b/RELEASE.rst
index ecd6eace1..95c95e519 100644
--- a/RELEASE.rst
+++ b/RELEASE.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ Release Notes
 These are the major changes made in each release. For details of the changes
 see the commit log at https://github.com/pydata/bottleneck
 
+Bottleneck 1.6.0
+================
+*Release date 2025-09-05*
+
+Maintenance
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+- Add Python 3.14 support, drop Python 3.9 
+- Add free-threading trove classifier
+- Bump upper bound on numpy to account for numpy 2.3.x 
+
+
 Bottleneck 1.5.0
 ================