diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 24cb548f..626dabe9 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
-  "packages/core": "0.5.0",
+  "packages/core": "0.6.0",
   "packages/fetch-mock": "11.1.1"
 }
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 946f2eea..c02ae22d 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -23854,7 +23854,7 @@
     },
     "packages/core": {
       "name": "@fetch-mock/core",
-      "version": "0.5.0",
+      "version": "0.6.0",
       "license": "ISC",
       "dependencies": {
         "@types/glob-to-regexp": "^0.4.4",
diff --git a/packages/core/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/core/CHANGELOG.md
index 1d7b4023..7beca8ad 100644
--- a/packages/core/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/core/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [0.6.0](https://github.com/wheresrhys/fetch-mock/compare/core-v0.5.0...core-v0.6.0) (2024-08-13)
+
+
+### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
+
+* force a major release due to breaking nature of relative url API changes
+
+### Features
+
+* implemented allowRelativeUrls option ([f32bd6e](https://github.com/wheresrhys/fetch-mock/commit/f32bd6e6ba7aed03ec0fd0c7361097e85c84224a))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* all relative url behaviour is as expected now; ([dc99eb7](https://github.com/wheresrhys/fetch-mock/commit/dc99eb783e64c8c101c9d15fc59cccc7f7ad174d))
+* force a major release due to breaking nature of relative url API changes ([6f29db8](https://github.com/wheresrhys/fetch-mock/commit/6f29db8ff79a8c7a50ad03f4c1547d8716ffb298))
+
 ## [0.5.0](https://github.com/wheresrhys/fetch-mock/compare/core-v0.4.12...core-v0.5.0) (2024-08-13)
 
 
diff --git a/packages/core/package.json b/packages/core/package.json
index d953a259..fa182ff2 100644
--- a/packages/core/package.json
+++ b/packages/core/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "@fetch-mock/core",
   "description": "Utility for creating mock fetch implementation",
-  "version": "0.5.0",
+  "version": "0.6.0",
   "main": "./dist/cjs/index.js",
   "module": "./dist/esm/index.js",
   "exports": {