diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 24aac88..9e1e84e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -63,19 +63,19 @@ M1, Raspberry Pi, etc.) follow the [build instructions](#build) instead.
 and extract it to a temporary directory
 2. Copy `pg_uuidv7.so` for your Postgres version into the Postgres module
 directory
-3. Copy `pg_uuidv7--1.5.sql` and `pg_uuidv7.control` into the Postgres extension
+3. Copy `pg_uuidv7--1.6.sql` and `pg_uuidv7.control` into the Postgres extension
 directory
 4. Enable the extension in the database using `CREATE EXTENSION pg_uuidv7;`
 
 ```sh
 # example shell script to install pg_uuidv7
 cd "$(mktemp -d)"
-curl -LO "https://github.com/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7/releases/download/v1.5.0/{pg_uuidv7.tar.gz,SHA256SUMS}"
+curl -LO "https://github.com/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7/releases/download/v1.6.0/{pg_uuidv7.tar.gz,SHA256SUMS}"
 tar xf pg_uuidv7.tar.gz
 sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
 PG_MAJOR=$(pg_config --version | sed 's/^.* \([0-9]\{1,\}\).*$/\1/')
 cp "$PG_MAJOR/pg_uuidv7.so" "$(pg_config --pkglibdir)"
-cp pg_uuidv7--1.5.sql pg_uuidv7.control "$(pg_config --sharedir)/extension"
+cp pg_uuidv7--1.6.sql pg_uuidv7.control "$(pg_config --sharedir)/extension"
 psql -c "CREATE EXTENSION pg_uuidv7;"
 ```
 
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ docker build . --tag pg_uuidv7
 A prebuilt x86_64 version of this image is on GitHub:
 
 ```sh
-docker pull ghcr.io/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7:1.5.0
+docker pull ghcr.io/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7:1.6.0
 ```
 
 The prebuilt image [is similar](https://github.com/fboulnois/pg_uuidv7/pull/29#issuecomment-1996102946)