From 8634ffec4fbc003630e7e3e7ba423a25f4d289d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: akshat <olttwa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 14:50:56 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare Goose for 0.6.0 release

---
 CHANGELOG.md    | 10 ++++++++++
 CONTRIBUTING.md |  7 +++++++
 README.md       | 12 ++++++++++--
 pom.xml         |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4740ffad..f444123d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 ### Changed
 ### Fixed
 
+## [0.6.0] - 4th-Oct-2024
+
+### Added
+- Formatting check in CI and guidelines
+
+### Changed
+- References of Periodic jobs to Cron jobs
+
+### Fixed
+
 ## [0.5.3] - 16th-Sept-2024
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index df7822eb..37446b4b 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ Thank you for investing your time in contributing to our project!
 
 Before you start contributing, we're presuming you've gone through all the [architecture-decisions](https://github.com/nilenso/goose/tree/main/architecture-decisions) & had a discussion with the maintainers.
 
+Request for feedback
+--------
+
+We plan to release **Goose 1.0.0** on **February 1st, 2025**, marking API stability and ensuring backward-compatibility, with no downtime during upgrades.
+
+**We welcome feedback from current and new users**, especially if you’d like to request features or suggest changes to the API or implementation before the 1.0.0 release. Please share your thoughts via [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/nilenso/goose/issues/new) or the [Clojurians Slack](https://clojurians.slack.com/channels/goose).
+
 Installation
 --------
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4b577085..82891732 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ Goose
 The Next-Level background job processing library for Clojure.
 > **Simple. Pluggable. Reliable. Extensible. Scalable.**
 
+Announcement 🔈
+---------
+We are excited to announce that **5 companies** are using Goose successfully and reliably in production environments. With the release of the [Jobs Management Console](https://github.com/nilenso/goose/wiki/Console), Goose has reached a level of maturity, offering a feature-rich, stable, and production-ready background job processing solution.
+
+We plan to release **Goose 1.0.0** on **February 1st, 2025**, marking API stability and ensuring backward-compatibility, with no downtime during upgrades.
+
+We welcome feedback from current and new users, especially if you’d like to request features or suggest changes to the API or implementation before the 1.0.0 release. Please review our [Architecture Decisions](https://github.com/nilenso/goose/tree/main/architecture-decisions) and [Wiki](https://github.com/nilenso/goose/wiki) for more context, and share your thoughts via [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/nilenso/goose/issues/new) or the [Clojurians Slack](https://clojurians.slack.com/channels/goose).
+
 Performance
 ---------
 Please refer to the [Benchmarking section](https://github.com/nilenso/goose/tree/main/perf).
@@ -32,10 +40,10 @@ Getting Started
 ### Add Goose as a dependency
 ```Clojure
 ;;; Clojure CLI/deps.edn
-com.nilenso/goose {:mvn/version "0.5.3"}
+com.nilenso/goose {:mvn/version "0.6.0"}
 
 ;;; Leiningen/Boot
-[com.nilenso/goose "0.5.3"]
+[com.nilenso/goose "0.6.0"]
 ```
 
 ### Client
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0ff02e41..a9c716a0 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.nilenso</groupId>
   <artifactId>goose</artifactId>
-    <version>0.5.3</version>
+    <version>0.6.0</version>
   <name>goose</name>
   <url>https://github.com/nilenso/goose</url>