diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4770e369..96b020b8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+# 1.6.0
+- Complete rewrite of the stratum TCP/TLS network communication using boost::asio to fix connection issues and crashs 
+- Force of PoW via "variant" parameter in xmrg-proxy 2.5.2+, it now overrules local settings
+- Implementation of CN-Heavy algo used by Sumokoin / Haven / ... 
+- XMRigDaemon now keeps the miner running event when the miner crashs
 # 1.5.5
 - Fixed Bad/Invalid shares and high share transmit latency
 - Fixed hugepages for some older linux versions
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 71eab7c4..69c2e5b0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@ add_definitions(/D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS)
 add_definitions(/DUNICODE)
 add_definitions(/DMINER_EXECUTABLE_NAME=${MINER_EXECUTABLE_NAME})
 #add_definitions(/DAPP_DEBUG)
-add_definitions(-fexceptions)
+
+add_compile_options(-fexceptions)
 
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
 
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ if (WIN32)
     add_definitions(-DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB)
 endif()
 
-find_package(Boost 1.62.0 COMPONENTS system REQUIRED)
+find_package(Boost 1.63.0 COMPONENTS system REQUIRED)
 
 include(cmake/flags.cmake)
 
@@ -212,7 +213,6 @@ include_directories(src)
 include_directories(src/3rdparty)
 include_directories(${UV_INCLUDE_DIR})
 include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 
 add_library(xmrig_common STATIC ${SOURCES_COMMON})
 add_library(xmrig_os_dependencies STATIC ${SOURCES_OS} ${SOURCES_SYSLOG})
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 02968da6..3c6d42c5 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 #define APP_DESC      "XMRigCC CPU miner"
 #define APP_COPYRIGHT "Copyright (C) 2017- BenDr0id"
 #endif
-#define APP_VERSION   "1.6.0_beta2 (based on XMRig 2.5.2)"
+#define APP_VERSION   "1.6.0 (based on XMRig 2.5.2)"
 #define APP_DOMAIN    ""
 #define APP_SITE      "https://github.com/Bendr0id/xmrigCC"
 #define APP_KIND      "cpu"