diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index 22183670c2d4..c15f73f688ca 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.dataflow</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-cloud-dataflow-java-sdk-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>com.google.cloud.dataflow</groupId>
diff --git a/maven-archetypes/examples/pom.xml b/maven-archetypes/examples/pom.xml
index 6cb1852562a5..4e999083b0b9 100644
--- a/maven-archetypes/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-archetypes/examples/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.dataflow</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-cloud-dataflow-java-sdk-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/maven-archetypes/starter/pom.xml b/maven-archetypes/starter/pom.xml
index b5b32514dcb2..0aa71c49f928 100644
--- a/maven-archetypes/starter/pom.xml
+++ b/maven-archetypes/starter/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.dataflow</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-cloud-dataflow-java-sdk-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7e5e078339e7..6fb0b32a573e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   <url>http://cloud.google.com/dataflow</url>
   <inceptionYear>2013</inceptionYear>
 
-  <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
   <licenses>
     <license>
diff --git a/runners/flink/pom.xml b/runners/flink/pom.xml
index b1929d217068..c8c5d848fdd7 100644
--- a/runners/flink/pom.xml
+++ b/runners/flink/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
         <artifactId>runners</artifactId>
-        <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>flink-runner</artifactId>
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
         <flink.version>1.0.0</flink.version>
-        <beam.version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</beam.version>
+        <beam.version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</beam.version>
         <scala.major.version>2.10</scala.major.version>
         <!-- Default parameters for mvn exec:exec -->
         <clazz>org.apache.beam.runners.flink.examples.WordCount</clazz>
diff --git a/runners/pom.xml b/runners/pom.xml
index 757e2081d1cc..980900bf7a8b 100644
--- a/runners/pom.xml
+++ b/runners/pom.xml
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud.dataflow</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-dataflow-java-sdk-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
     <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
     <artifactId>runners</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
diff --git a/sdk/pom.xml b/sdk/pom.xml
index f782b7853247..d7e10a53a801 100644
--- a/sdk/pom.xml
+++ b/sdk/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   <parent>
     <groupId>com.google.cloud.dataflow</groupId>
     <artifactId>google-cloud-dataflow-java-sdk-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.5.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>
 
   <groupId>com.google.cloud.dataflow</groupId>
diff --git a/sdk/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/runners/DataflowPipelineRunner.java b/sdk/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/runners/DataflowPipelineRunner.java
index c90b90423587..29f9b85cc529 100644
--- a/sdk/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/runners/DataflowPipelineRunner.java
+++ b/sdk/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/dataflow/sdk/runners/DataflowPipelineRunner.java
@@ -211,9 +211,9 @@ public class DataflowPipelineRunner extends PipelineRunner<DataflowPipelineJob>
   // Default Docker container images that execute Dataflow worker harness, residing in Google
   // Container Registry, separately for Batch and Streaming.
   public static final String BATCH_WORKER_HARNESS_CONTAINER_IMAGE
-      = "dataflow.gcr.io/v1beta3/java-batch:github-20160225-00";
+      = "dataflow.gcr.io/v1beta3/java-batch:1.5.0";
   public static final String STREAMING_WORKER_HARNESS_CONTAINER_IMAGE
-      = "dataflow.gcr.io/v1beta3/java-streaming:github-20160225-00";
+      = "dataflow.gcr.io/v1beta3/java-streaming:1.5.0";
 
   // The limit of CreateJob request size.
   private static final int CREATE_JOB_REQUEST_LIMIT_BYTES = 10 * 1024 * 1024;