From 10f86638bbd5cd722b31ea151470f1fddedda68c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mengye Ren <renmengye@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:02:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Release 0.6.0rc1

---
 CITATION.cff              | 4 ++--
 src/outerloop/__init__.py | 2 +-
 tests/test_version.py     | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index 10f0ce94..cf62a147 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
+++ b/CITATION.cff
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ authors:
 repository-code: "https://github.com/outerloop-science/outerloop"
 url: "https://outerloop.science"
 license: Apache-2.0
-version: 0.5.0
-date-released: "2026-10-23"
+version: 0.6.0rc1
+date-released: "2026-10-25"
diff --git a/src/outerloop/__init__.py b/src/outerloop/__init__.py
index 3567add9..022d5af1 100644
--- a/src/outerloop/__init__.py
+++ b/src/outerloop/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Outerloop: autonomous research agents that improve a benchmark on your own code."""
 
-__version__ = "0.5.0"
+__version__ = "0.6.0rc1"
diff --git a/tests/test_version.py b/tests/test_version.py
index 0285927b..93b73182 100644
--- a/tests/test_version.py
+++ b/tests/test_version.py
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ def test_installed_metadata_matches_package_version() -> None:
 
 def test_release_version_is_pinned() -> None:
     # the release PR bumps this literal; a forgotten bump fails here
-    assert outerloop.__version__ == "0.5.0"
+    assert outerloop.__version__ == "0.6.0rc1"