diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 4aacba4f3..c2208a577 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.6.0rc1
+current_version = 1.6.0
 parse = (?P<major>[\d]+) # major version number
 	\.(?P<minor>[\d]+) # minor version number
 	\.(?P<patch>[\d]+) # patch version number
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0-a1.md b/.changes/1.6.0-a1.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 57e14b79c..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0-a1.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-a1 - April 17, 2023
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0-b1.md b/.changes/1.6.0-b1.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 07e7c693a..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0-b1.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b1 - May 12, 2023
-
-### Fixes
-
-- Adding region as independent param in profiles ([#419](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/419))
-- Update signature for execute method ([#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'))
-
-### Dependencies
-
-- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.2 to ~=7.3 ([#414](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/414))
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0-b2.md b/.changes/1.6.0-b2.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d0f1d2871..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0-b2.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b2 - May 25, 2023
-
-### Fixes
-
-- Fix redshift_connector issue of timing out after 30s ([#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427))
-- Add a new connection param to reenable certain Redshift commands in macros. ([#463](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/463))
-- Escape `%` symbols in table/view/column comments ([#441](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/441))
-- Use smaller default batch size for seeds ([#347](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/347))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427))
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0-b3.md b/.changes/1.6.0-b3.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 31cc589a9..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0-b3.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b3 - June 09, 2023
-
-### Breaking Changes
-
-- sslmode behavior has changed. To connect without ssl, set sslmode = disable. To connect using ssl, set sslmode to verify-ca, or verify-full. ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
-- Drop support for python 3.7 ([#dbt-core/7082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-core/7082))
-
-### Features
-
-- Standardize the _connection_keys and debug_query for `dbt debug`. ([#PR754](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/PR754))
-
-### Fixes
-
-- translate psycopg2 sslmode to ssl and sslmode in redshift_connector ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
-- Get autocommit on by default to restore old semantics users had relied on prior to 1.5. Add tests. ([#425](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/425))
-- remove depdency on postgres__list_relations_without_caching macro ([#488](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/488))
-
-### Under the Hood
-
-- test constraint rendering of foreign key and unique constraints ([#7417](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7417))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429), [#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0-b4.md b/.changes/1.6.0-b4.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d633633ea..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0-b4.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b4 - June 16, 2023
-
-### Breaking Changes
-
-- require latest version of redshift_connector driver ([#492](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/492))
-
-### Fixes
-
-- remove requirement for region param ([#484](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/484))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@dataders](https://github.com/dataders) ([#492](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/492))
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0-b5.md b/.changes/1.6.0-b5.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3263cb06e..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0-b5.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b5 - June 23, 2023
-
-### Features
-
-- Add support for materialized views ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0-rc1.md b/.changes/1.6.0-rc1.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b01567fcd..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0-rc1.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-rc1 - July 17, 2023
-
-### Features
-
--  ([#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179))
-- add merge as a new incremental strategy for redshift ([#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402))
-- add dbt-redshift portion of dbt_clone functionality ([#504](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/504))
-- Enumerate implemented materialized view features via integration test flags  and change `autorefresh` to `auto_refresh` ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
-
-### Fixes
-
-- Remove dependent_projects argument from PartialProject call in unit tests ([#7955](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7955))
-- Fix regression in redshift-connector==2.0.912 ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
-- Fixed unit test that broke following dbt clone work ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
-- cast the port as an int ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
-- hard pin dep on redshift_connector ([#531](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/531), [#532](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/532))
-- re-enable query commenting ([#536](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/536))
-
-### Dependencies
-
-- Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.2 to ~=3.3 ([#449](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/449))
-- Update types-requests requirement from ~=2.28 to ~=2.31 ([#461](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/461))
-- Update tox requirement from ~=4.5 to ~=4.6 ([#481](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/481))
-- Bump mypy from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0 ([#503](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/503))
-- Update pre-commit requirement from ~=2.21 to ~=3.3 ([#426](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/426))
-- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.3 to ~=7.4 ([#507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/507))
-- Bump mypy from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 ([#508](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/508))
-- Update pip-tools requirement from ~=6.13 to ~=6.14 ([#517](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/517))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179), [#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402), [#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0.md b/.changes/1.6.0.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4033636f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/1.6.0.md
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+## dbt-redshift 1.6.0 - July 31, 2023
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- sslmode behavior has changed. To connect without ssl, set sslmode = disable. To connect using ssl, set sslmode to verify-ca, or verify-full. ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
+- Drop support for python 3.7 ([#dbt-core/7082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-core/7082))
+- require latest version of redshift_connector driver ([#492](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/492))
+
+### Features
+
+- Add support for materialized views ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
+-  ([#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179))
+- Standardize the _connection_keys and debug_query for `dbt debug`. ([#PR754](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/PR754))
+- add merge as a new incremental strategy for redshift ([#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402))
+- add dbt-redshift portion of dbt_clone functionality ([#504](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/504))
+- Enumerate implemented materialized view features via integration test flags  and change `autorefresh` to `auto_refresh` ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Adding region as independent param in profiles ([#419](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/419))
+- Fix redshift_connector issue of timing out after 30s ([#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427))
+- Update signature for execute method ([#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'))
+- translate psycopg2 sslmode to ssl and sslmode in redshift_connector ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
+- Add a new connection param to reenable certain Redshift commands in macros. ([#463](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/463))
+- Escape `%` symbols in table/view/column comments ([#441](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/441))
+- Use smaller default batch size for seeds ([#347](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/347))
+- Get autocommit on by default to restore old semantics users had relied on prior to 1.5. Add tests. ([#425](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/425))
+- remove depdency on postgres__list_relations_without_caching macro ([#488](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/488))
+- remove requirement for region param ([#484](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/484))
+- Remove dependent_projects argument from PartialProject call in unit tests ([#7955](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7955))
+- Fix regression in redshift-connector==2.0.912 ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- Fixed unit test that broke following dbt clone work ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- cast the port as an int ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- hard pin dep on redshift_connector ([#531](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/531), [#532](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/532))
+- re-enable query commenting ([#536](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/536))
+
+### Under the Hood
+
+- test constraint rendering of foreign key and unique constraints ([#7417](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7417))
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.2 to ~=7.3 ([#414](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/414))
+- Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.2 to ~=3.3 ([#449](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/449))
+- Update types-requests requirement from ~=2.28 to ~=2.31 ([#461](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/461))
+- Update tox requirement from ~=4.5 to ~=4.6 ([#481](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/481))
+- Bump mypy from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0 ([#503](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/503))
+- Update pre-commit requirement from ~=2.21 to ~=3.3 ([#426](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/426))
+- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.3 to ~=7.4 ([#507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/507))
+- Bump mypy from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1 ([#508](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/508))
+- Update pip-tools requirement from ~=6.13 to ~=6.14 ([#517](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/517))
+
+### Contributors
+- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429), [#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179), [#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402), [#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427), [#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429), [#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- [@nssalian](https://github.com/nssalian) ([#419](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/419), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'))
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Breaking Changes-20230522-111945.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Breaking Changes-20230522-111945.yaml
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-kind: Breaking Changes
-body: sslmode behavior has changed. To connect without ssl, set sslmode = disable.
-  To connect using ssl, set sslmode to verify-ca, or verify-full.
-time: 2023-05-22T11:19:45.927903-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: jiezhen-chen
-  Issue: "429"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Breaking Changes-20230530-165542.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Breaking Changes-20230530-165542.yaml
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index 68b4bfdda..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Breaking Changes-20230530-165542.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Breaking Changes
-body: Drop support for python 3.7
-time: 2023-05-30T16:55:42.393416-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: dbt-core/7082
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Breaking Changes-20230614-144743.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Breaking Changes-20230614-144743.yaml
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index c83a7db5e..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Breaking Changes-20230614-144743.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Breaking Changes
-body: require latest version of redshift_connector driver
-time: 2023-06-14T14:47:43.90505-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: dataders
-  Issue: "492"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230421-032407.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230421-032407.yaml
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+++ /dev/null
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-kind: Dependencies
-body: "Update pytest requirement from ~=7.2 to ~=7.3"
-time: 2023-04-21T03:24:07.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  PR: 414
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-kind: "Dependencies"
-body: "Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.2 to ~=3.3"
-time: 2023-05-15T19:59:52.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 449
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index c2a8a363d..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230523-195945.yaml
+++ /dev/null
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-kind: "Dependencies"
-body: "Update types-requests requirement from ~=2.28 to ~=2.31"
-time: 2023-05-23T19:59:45.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 461
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--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230605-195944.yaml
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-kind: "Dependencies"
-body: "Update tox requirement from ~=4.5 to ~=4.6"
-time: 2023-06-05T19:59:44.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 481
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230620-195844.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230620-195844.yaml
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--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230620-195844.yaml
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-kind: "Dependencies"
-body: "Bump mypy from 1.2.0 to 1.4.0"
-time: 2023-06-20T19:58:44.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 503
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230624-182902.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230624-182902.yaml
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+++ /dev/null
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-kind: "Dependencies"
-body: "Update pre-commit requirement from ~=2.21 to ~=3.3"
-time: 2023-06-24T18:29:02.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 426
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-kind: "Dependencies"
-body: "Update pytest requirement from ~=7.3 to ~=7.4"
-time: 2023-06-26T19:59:17.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 507
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230626-195934.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Dependencies-20230626-195934.yaml
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-kind: "Dependencies"
-body: "Bump mypy from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1"
-time: 2023-06-26T19:59:34.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 508
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-kind: "Dependencies"
-body: "Update pip-tools requirement from ~=6.13 to ~=6.14"
-time: 2023-07-03T19:04:19.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 517
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+++ /dev/null
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-kind: Features
-body: Add support for materialized views
-time: 2023-03-30T16:58:42.413699-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare McKnight-42
-  Issue: dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911
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-kind: Features
-time: 2023-04-07T10:47:23.105369-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: jiezhen-chen
-  Issue: 179
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+++ /dev/null
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-kind: Features
-body: Standardize the _connection_keys and debug_query for `dbt debug`.
-time: 2023-06-04T04:14:10.191263-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: versusfacit
-  Issue: PR754
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--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Features-20230613-144752.yaml
+++ /dev/null
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-kind: Features
-body: add merge as a new incremental strategy for redshift
-time: 2023-06-13T14:47:52.054853-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: jiezhen-chen
-  Issue: "402"
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-kind: Features
-body: add dbt-redshift portion of dbt_clone functionality
-time: 2023-06-22T14:46:49.037145-05:00
-custom:
-  Author: McKnight-42 aranke
-  Issue: "504"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Features-20230714-160100.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Features-20230714-160100.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 44bddf227..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Features-20230714-160100.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Features
-body: Enumerate implemented materialized view features via integration test flags  and change `autorefresh` to `auto_refresh`
-time: 2023-07-14T16:01:00.54015-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230428-142321.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230428-142321.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index c7fefda43..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230428-142321.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Adding region as independent param in profiles
-time: 2023-04-28T14:23:21.041865-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: nssalian
-  Issue: "419"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230508-094834.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230508-094834.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 378c428e3..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230508-094834.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Fix redshift_connector issue of timing out after 30s
-time: 2023-05-08T09:48:34.019843-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: jiezhen-chen
-  Issue: "427"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230509-143721.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230509-143721.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d80abf7c..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230509-143721.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Update signature for execute method
-time: 2023-05-09T14:37:21.163869-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: nssalian
-  Issue: ''' '''
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230512-082027.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230512-082027.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7116257d8..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230512-082027.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: translate psycopg2 sslmode to ssl and sslmode in redshift_connector
-time: 2023-05-12T08:20:27.486301-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: jiezhen-chen
-  Issue: "429"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230520-043039.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230520-043039.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cb97526e..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230520-043039.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Add a new connection param to reenable certain Redshift commands in macros.
-time: 2023-05-20T04:30:39.358755-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: versusfacit
-  Issue: "463"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230524-151825.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230524-151825.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index bed2f78e4..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230524-151825.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Escape `%` symbols in table/view/column comments
-time: 2023-05-24T15:18:25.834088-06:00
-custom:
-  Author: dbeatty10
-  Issue: "441"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230524-165236.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230524-165236.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 083191405..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230524-165236.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Use smaller default batch size for seeds
-time: 2023-05-24T16:52:36.915348-06:00
-custom:
-  Author: dbeatty10
-  Issue: "347"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230531-153347.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230531-153347.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c4d324ad..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230531-153347.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Get autocommit on by default to restore old semantics users had relied on prior
-  to 1.5. Add tests.
-time: 2023-05-31T15:33:47.180508-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: versusfacit
-  Issue: "425"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230608-180130.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230608-180130.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 47dfda72c..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230608-180130.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: remove depdency on postgres__list_relations_without_caching macro
-time: 2023-06-08T18:01:30.954976-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: colin-rogers-dbt
-  Issue: "488"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230612-114853.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230612-114853.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1650c5704..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230612-114853.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: remove requirement for region param
-time: 2023-06-12T11:48:53.980327-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: colin-rogers-dbt
-  Issue: "484"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230628-123227.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230628-123227.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ece8f404..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230628-123227.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Remove dependent_projects argument from PartialProject call in unit tests
-time: 2023-06-28T12:32:27.637669-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: "7955"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-001056.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-001056.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 79b205caf..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-001056.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Fix regression in redshift-connector==2.0.912
-time: 2023-07-06T00:10:56.337407-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: "518"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-012233.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-012233.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index bc28b2eec..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-012233.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Fixed unit test that broke following dbt clone work
-time: 2023-07-06T01:22:33.840137-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: "518"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-123329.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-123329.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index afda869d0..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230706-123329.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: cast the port as an int
-time: 2023-07-06T12:33:29.799921-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: jiezhen-chen
-  Issue: "518"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230713-105351.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230713-105351.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 47193a357..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230713-105351.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: hard pin dep on redshift_connector
-time: 2023-07-13T10:53:51.463072-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: dataders
-  Issue: 531 532
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230713-190412.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230713-190412.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index d50ab7a1f..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Fixes-20230713-190412.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: re-enable query commenting
-time: 2023-07-13T19:04:12.580073-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: dataders
-  Issue: "536"
diff --git a/.changes/1.6.0/Under the Hood-20230511-162623.yaml b/.changes/1.6.0/Under the Hood-20230511-162623.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9166641af..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.6.0/Under the Hood-20230511-162623.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: test constraint rendering of foreign key and unique constraints
-time: 2023-05-11T16:26:23.49096-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: michelleark
-  Issue: "7417"
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 10d12ce2c..943231468 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,17 +5,35 @@
 - "Breaking changes" listed under a version may require action from end users or external maintainers when upgrading to that version.
 - Do not edit this file directly. This file is auto-generated using [changie](https://github.com/miniscruff/changie). For details on how to document a change, see [the contributing guide](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-changelog-entry)
 
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-rc1 - July 17, 2023
+## dbt-redshift 1.6.0 - July 31, 2023
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- sslmode behavior has changed. To connect without ssl, set sslmode = disable. To connect using ssl, set sslmode to verify-ca, or verify-full. ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
+- Drop support for python 3.7 ([#dbt-core/7082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-core/7082))
+- require latest version of redshift_connector driver ([#492](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/492))
 
 ### Features
 
+- Add support for materialized views ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
 -  ([#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179))
+- Standardize the _connection_keys and debug_query for `dbt debug`. ([#PR754](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/PR754))
 - add merge as a new incremental strategy for redshift ([#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402))
 - add dbt-redshift portion of dbt_clone functionality ([#504](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/504))
 - Enumerate implemented materialized view features via integration test flags  and change `autorefresh` to `auto_refresh` ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
 
 ### Fixes
 
+- Adding region as independent param in profiles ([#419](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/419))
+- Fix redshift_connector issue of timing out after 30s ([#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427))
+- Update signature for execute method ([#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'))
+- translate psycopg2 sslmode to ssl and sslmode in redshift_connector ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
+- Add a new connection param to reenable certain Redshift commands in macros. ([#463](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/463))
+- Escape `%` symbols in table/view/column comments ([#441](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/441))
+- Use smaller default batch size for seeds ([#347](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/347))
+- Get autocommit on by default to restore old semantics users had relied on prior to 1.5. Add tests. ([#425](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/425))
+- remove depdency on postgres__list_relations_without_caching macro ([#488](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/488))
+- remove requirement for region param ([#484](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/484))
 - Remove dependent_projects argument from PartialProject call in unit tests ([#7955](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7955))
 - Fix regression in redshift-connector==2.0.912 ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
 - Fixed unit test that broke following dbt clone work ([#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
@@ -23,8 +41,13 @@
 - hard pin dep on redshift_connector ([#531](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/531), [#532](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/532))
 - re-enable query commenting ([#536](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/536))
 
+### Under the Hood
+
+- test constraint rendering of foreign key and unique constraints ([#7417](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7417))
+
 ### Dependencies
 
+- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.2 to ~=7.3 ([#414](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/414))
 - Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.2 to ~=3.3 ([#449](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/449))
 - Update types-requests requirement from ~=2.28 to ~=2.31 ([#461](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/461))
 - Update tox requirement from ~=4.5 to ~=4.6 ([#481](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/481))
@@ -35,76 +58,9 @@
 - Update pip-tools requirement from ~=6.13 to ~=6.14 ([#517](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/517))
 
 ### Contributors
-- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179), [#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402), [#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
-
-
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b5 - June 23, 2023
-
-### Features
-
-- Add support for materialized views ([#dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-labs/dbt-core#6911))
-
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b4 - June 16, 2023
-
-### Breaking Changes
-
-- require latest version of redshift_connector driver ([#492](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/492))
-
-### Fixes
-
-- remove requirement for region param ([#484](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/484))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@dataders](https://github.com/dataders) ([#492](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/492))
-
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b3 - June 09, 2023
-
-### Breaking Changes
-
-- sslmode behavior has changed. To connect without ssl, set sslmode = disable. To connect using ssl, set sslmode to verify-ca, or verify-full. ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
-- Drop support for python 3.7 ([#dbt-core/7082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/dbt-core/7082))
-
-### Features
-
-- Standardize the _connection_keys and debug_query for `dbt debug`. ([#PR754](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/PR754))
-
-### Fixes
-
-- translate psycopg2 sslmode to ssl and sslmode in redshift_connector ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
-- Get autocommit on by default to restore old semantics users had relied on prior to 1.5. Add tests. ([#425](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/425))
-- remove depdency on postgres__list_relations_without_caching macro ([#488](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/488))
-
-### Under the Hood
-
-- test constraint rendering of foreign key and unique constraints ([#7417](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/7417))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429), [#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429))
-
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b2 - May 25, 2023
-
-### Fixes
-
-- Fix redshift_connector issue of timing out after 30s ([#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427))
-- Add a new connection param to reenable certain Redshift commands in macros. ([#463](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/463))
-- Escape `%` symbols in table/view/column comments ([#441](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/441))
-- Use smaller default batch size for seeds ([#347](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/347))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427))
-
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-b1 - May 12, 2023
-
-### Fixes
-
-- Adding region as independent param in profiles ([#419](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/419))
-- Update signature for execute method ([#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'))
-
-### Dependencies
-
-- Update pytest requirement from ~=7.2 to ~=7.3 ([#414](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/pull/414))
+- [@jiezhen-chen](https://github.com/jiezhen-chen) ([#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429), [#179](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/179), [#402](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/402), [#427](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/427), [#429](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/429), [#518](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/518))
+- [@nssalian](https://github.com/nssalian) ([#419](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/419), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'), [#'](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-redshift/issues/'))
 
-## dbt-redshift 1.6.0-a1 - April 17, 2023
 
 ## Previous Releases
 For information on prior major and minor releases, see their changelogs:
diff --git a/dbt/adapters/redshift/__version__.py b/dbt/adapters/redshift/__version__.py
index 7a0130d40..38ec8ede9 100644
--- a/dbt/adapters/redshift/__version__.py
+++ b/dbt/adapters/redshift/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version = "1.6.0rc1"
+version = "1.6.0"