diff --git a/NEXT_RELEASE_CHANGELOG.md b/NEXT_RELEASE_CHANGELOG.md
index f08c6a2fd..e0f4cd31f 100644
--- a/NEXT_RELEASE_CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/NEXT_RELEASE_CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,89 +1,10 @@
-### Enhancements
+### Features
 
-* Breaking change: (#3574) - 
-This reverts #2560, because we've decided that `@BeanMapping(ignoreByDefault = true)` should only be applied to target properties and not to source properties. 
-Source properties are ignored anyway, the `BeanMapping#unmappedSourcePolicy` should be used to control what should happen with unmapped source policy
+### Enhancements
 
 ### Bugs
 
-* Breaking change: Presence check method used only once when multiple source parameters are provided (#3601)
-* Fix `@SubclassMapping` not working with `@BeanMapping#ignoreUnmappedSourceProperties` (#3609)
-* Fix duplicate method generation with recursive auto mapping (#3591)
-
 ### Documentation
 
-* Fix documentation of `unmappedSourcePolicy` default value (#3635)
-* Fix documentation link of before and after mapping when using builders (#3639)
-* Fix typo in experimental note (#3634)
-* Add example classes for the passing target type documentation (#3504)
-
 ### Build
 
-* Enforce whitespaces around the for colon with CheckStyle (#3642)
-
-## Breaking changes
-
-### Presence checks for source parameters
-
-In 1.6, support for presence checks on source parameters has been added.
-This means that even if you want to map a source parameter directly to some target property the new `@SourceParameterCondition` or `@Condition(appliesTo = ConditionStrategy.SOURCE_PARAMETERS)` should be used.
-
-e.g.
-
-If we had the following in 1.5:
-```java
-@Mapper
-public interface OrderMapper {
-
-    @Mapping(source = "dto", target = "customer", conditionQualifiedByName = "mapCustomerFromOrder")
-    Order map(OrderDTO dto);
-
-    @Condition
-    @Named("mapCustomerFromOrder")
-    default boolean mapCustomerFromOrder(OrderDTO dto) {
-        return dto != null && dto.getCustomerName() != null;
-    }
-
-}
-```
-
-Then MapStruct would generate
-
-```java
-public class OrderMapperImpl implements OrderMapper {
-
-    @Override
-    public Order map(OrderDTO dto) {
-        if ( dto == null ) {
-            return null;
-        }
-
-        Order order = new Order();
-
-        if ( mapCustomerFromOrder( dto ) ) {
-            order.setCustomer( orderDtoToCustomer( orderDTO ) );
-        }
-
-        return order;
-    }
-}
-```
-
-In order for the same to be generated in 1.6, the mapper needs to look like this:
-
-```java
-@Mapper
-public interface OrderMapper {
-
-    @Mapping(source = "dto", target = "customer", conditionQualifiedByName = "mapCustomerFromOrder")
-    Order map(OrderDTO dto);
-
-    @SourceParameterCondition
-    @Named("mapCustomerFromOrder")
-    default boolean mapCustomerFromOrder(OrderDTO dto) {
-        return dto != null && dto.getCustomerName() != null;
-    }
-
-}
-```
-
diff --git a/build-config/pom.xml b/build-config/pom.xml
index ff56bd795..0bdec734c 100644
--- a/build-config/pom.xml
+++ b/build-config/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/core-jdk8/pom.xml b/core-jdk8/pom.xml
index d2806fa41..160f963ad 100644
--- a/core-jdk8/pom.xml
+++ b/core-jdk8/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 478ef7308..ac993c73d 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/distribution/pom.xml b/distribution/pom.xml
index 4bd4bc5dc..afa8e3100 100644
--- a/distribution/pom.xml
+++ b/distribution/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/documentation/pom.xml b/documentation/pom.xml
index d98933a41..0a62a3ef3 100644
--- a/documentation/pom.xml
+++ b/documentation/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/integrationtest/pom.xml b/integrationtest/pom.xml
index 10850bc82..f888e226f 100644
--- a/integrationtest/pom.xml
+++ b/integrationtest/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/parent/pom.xml b/parent/pom.xml
index 2b3b8e65a..e4109325f 100644
--- a/parent/pom.xml
+++ b/parent/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
     <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
     <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-    <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+    <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
 
     <name>MapStruct Parent</name>
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         <maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>
         <!-- value comes from property git.commit.author.time -->
-        <project.build.outputTimestamp>2024-07-20T15:36:10Z</project.build.outputTimestamp>
+        <project.build.outputTimestamp>${git.commit.author.time}</project.build.outputTimestamp>
 
         <org.mapstruct.gem.version>1.0.0.Alpha3</org.mapstruct.gem.version>
         <org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.version>3.4.1</org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.version>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 571623372..90402f0ca 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>
 
diff --git a/processor/pom.xml b/processor/pom.xml
index e33e84ba6..12fc615f5 100644
--- a/processor/pom.xml
+++ b/processor/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     <parent>
         <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
         <artifactId>mapstruct-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.6.0.RC1</version>
+        <version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
         <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath>
     </parent>