diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 42a9b3567..567226adf 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@
     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
     <commons.conf.dir>src/conf</commons.conf.dir>
     <!-- Commons Release Plugin -->
-    <commons.release.version>1.0.0-alpha5</commons.release.version>
-    <commons.release.next>1.0.0-alpha6</commons.release.next>
-    <commons.bc.version>1.0.0-alpha4</commons.bc.version>
+    <commons.release.version>1.0.0-alpha6</commons.release.version>
+    <commons.release.next>1.0.0-alpha7</commons.release.next>
+    <commons.bc.version>1.0.0-alpha5</commons.bc.version>
     <commons.rc.version>RC1</commons.rc.version>
     <commons.release.isDistModule>true</commons.release.isDistModule>
     <commons.distSvnStagingUrl>scm:svn:https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/commons/imaging</commons.distSvnStagingUrl>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 62d9f6afd..02c1cb58e 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
     <title>Apache Commons Imaging Release Notes</title>
   </properties>
   <body>
+    <release version="1.0.0-alpha6" date="YYYY-MM-DD" description="The 1.0.0-alpha6 release requires Java 8.">
+    </release>
     <release version="1.0.0-alpha5" date="2024-04-15" description="The 1.0.0-alpha5 release requires Java 8.">
       <!-- FIX -->
       <action issue="IMAGING-319" dev="kinow" type="fix" due-to="Stefan Oltmann, Gary Lucas">Fix EXIF metadata is discarded when updating offsets (wrong calculation).</action>
