diff --git a/CITATION.cff b/CITATION.cff
index edda3668c4c..c1850a2f55b 100644
--- a/CITATION.cff
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 title: "MNE-Python"
 message: "If you use this software, please cite both the software itself, and the paper listed in the preferred-citation field."
-version: 1.5.0
-date-released: "2023-08-15"
-commit: 5645d375f52727eb563bd46a45422fc1a55e9f1a
+version: 1.6.0
+date-released: "2023-11-20"
+commit: 498cf789685ede0b29e712a1e7220c69443e8744
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.592483
 keywords:
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     given-names: Joan
   - family-names: Bekhti
     given-names: Yousra
+  - family-names: Scheltienne
+    given-names: Mathieu
   - family-names: Appelhoff
     given-names: Stefan
   - family-names: Leggitt
     given-names: Alan
   - family-names: Dykstra
     given-names: Andrew
-  - family-names: Scheltienne
-    given-names: Mathieu
   - family-names: Luke
     given-names: Rob
   - family-names: Trachel
@@ -121,10 +121,14 @@ authors:
     given-names: Cathy
   - family-names: García Alanis
     given-names: José C
+  - family-names: Huberty
+    given-names: Scott
   - family-names: Hauk
     given-names: Olaf
   - family-names: Maddox
     given-names: Ross
+  - family-names: Orfanos
+    given-names: Dimitri Papadopoulos
   - family-names: LaPlante
     given-names: Roan
   - family-names: Drew
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     given-names: Christoph
   - family-names: Dumas
     given-names: Guillaume
-  - family-names: Huberty
-    given-names: Scott
+  - family-names: Benerradi
+    given-names: Johann
   - family-names: Hartmann
     given-names: Thomas
-  - family-names: Orfanos
-    given-names: Dimitri Papadopoulos
   - family-names: Ort
     given-names: Eduard
-  - family-names: Benerradi
-    given-names: Johann
   - family-names: Pasler
     given-names: Paul
   - family-names: Repplinger
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     given-names: Tanay
   - family-names: Nunes
     given-names: Adonay
+  - family-names: Gramfort
+    given-names: Alexandre
   - family-names: Gütlin
     given-names: Dirk
   - name: kjs
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     given-names: Catalina María
   - family-names: Moënne-Loccoz
     given-names: Cristóbal
+  - family-names: Altukhov
+    given-names: Dmitrii
+  - family-names: Peterson
+    given-names: Erica
   - family-names: Heinila
     given-names: Erkka
   - family-names: Hanna
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     given-names: Michiru
   - family-names: Klein
     given-names: Natalie
+  - family-names: Roujansky
+    given-names: Paul
   - family-names: Kern
     given-names: Simon
   - family-names: Rantala
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     given-names: Burkhard
   - family-names: O'Reilly
     given-names: Christian
-  - family-names: Peterson
-    given-names: Erica
   - family-names: Kolkhorst
     given-names: Henrich
   - family-names: Banville
     given-names: Hubert
+  - family-names: Zhang
+    given-names: Jack
+  - family-names: Woessner
+    given-names: Jacob
   - family-names: Maksymenko
     given-names: Kostiantyn
   - family-names: Clarke
     given-names: Maggie
   - family-names: Anelli
     given-names: Matteo
+  - family-names: Chapochnikov
+    given-names: Nikolai
   - family-names: Bannier
     given-names: Pierre-Antoine
   - family-names: Choudhary
     given-names: Saket
-  - family-names: Gramfort
-    given-names: Alexandre
   - family-names: Forster
     given-names: Carina
   - family-names: Kim
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     given-names: Fu-Te
   - family-names: Kojcic
     given-names: Ivana
-  - family-names: Zhang
-    given-names: Jack
   - family-names: Nielsen
     given-names: Jesper Duemose
   - family-names: Lankinen
@@ -258,6 +266,10 @@ authors:
     given-names: Nathalie
   - family-names: Ward
     given-names: Nick
+  - family-names: Ruuskanen
+    given-names: Santeri
+  - family-names: Radanovic
+    given-names: Ana
   - family-names: Quinn
     given-names: Andrew
   - family-names: Gauthier
@@ -266,6 +278,8 @@ authors:
     given-names: Basile
   - family-names: Welke
     given-names: Dominik
+  - family-names: Welke
+    given-names: Dominik
   - family-names: Stephen
     given-names: Emily
   - family-names: Hornberger
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     given-names: Chetan
   - family-names: Zhao
     given-names: Christina
-  - family-names: Altukhov
-    given-names: Dmitrii
   - family-names: Krzemiński
     given-names: Dominik
-  - family-names: Welke
-    given-names: Dominik
   - family-names: Makowski
     given-names: Dominique
   - family-names: Mikulan
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     given-names: Gennadiy
   - family-names: O'Neill
     given-names: George
-  - family-names: Woessner
-    given-names: Jacob
+  - family-names: Abdelhedi
+    given-names: Hamza
   - family-names: Schiratti
     given-names: Jean-Baptiste
   - family-names: Evans
     given-names: Jen
+  - family-names: Veillette
+    given-names: John
   - family-names: Drew
     given-names: Jordan
   - family-names: Teves
     given-names: Joshua
+  - family-names: Zhu
+    given-names: Judy D
+  - family-names: Armeni
+    given-names: Kristijan
   - family-names: Mathewson
     given-names: Kyle
   - family-names: Gwilliams
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     given-names: Naveen
   - family-names: Wilming
     given-names: Niklas
-  - family-names: Chapochnikov
-    given-names: Nikolai
   - family-names: Kozynets
     given-names: Oleh
   - family-names: Ablin
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     given-names: Adina
   - family-names: Ciok
     given-names: Alex
+  - family-names: Gilbert
+    given-names: Andy
   - family-names: Pradhan
     given-names: Aniket
   - family-names: Padee
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   - family-names: O'Neill
     given-names: George
   - name: Giulio
+  - family-names: Reina
+    given-names: Gonzalo
   - family-names: Maymandi
     given-names: Hamid
-  - family-names: Abdelhedi
-    given-names: Hamza
   - family-names: Sonntag
     given-names: Hermann
   - family-names: Ye
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     given-names: Hüseyin Orkun
   - family-names: Machairas
     given-names: Ilias
+  - family-names: Skelin
+    given-names: Ivan
+  - family-names: Zubarev
+    given-names: Ivan
   - family-names: Kaczmarzyk
     given-names: Jakub
   - family-names: Zerfowski
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     given-names: Johan
   - family-names: Niediek
     given-names: Johannes
-  - family-names: Veillette
-    given-names: John
   - family-names: Koen
     given-names: Josh
   - family-names: Bear
     given-names: Joshua J
-  - family-names: Zhu
-    given-names: Judy D
   - family-names: Dammers
     given-names: Juergen
   - family-names: Galán
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     given-names: Lorenzo
   - family-names: Hejtmánek
     given-names: Lukáš
+  - family-names: Balatsko
+    given-names: Maksym
   - family-names: Kitzbichler
     given-names: Manfred
   - family-names: Kumar
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     given-names: Marcin
   - family-names: Henney
     given-names: Mark Alexander
+  - family-names: Schulz
+    given-names: Martin
   - family-names: van Harmelen
     given-names: Martin
   - name: MartinBaBer
@@ -613,16 +633,18 @@ authors:
     given-names: Nikolas
   - family-names: Shubi
     given-names: Omer
+  - family-names: Mainar
+    given-names: Pablo
   - family-names: Sundaram
     given-names: Padma
-  - family-names: Roujansky
-    given-names: Paul
   - family-names: Silva
     given-names: Pedro
   - family-names: Molfese
     given-names: Peter J
   - family-names: Das
     given-names: Proloy
+  - family-names: Chu
+    given-names: Qian
   - family-names: Li
     given-names: Quanliang
   - family-names: Barthélemy
@@ -633,6 +655,8 @@ authors:
     given-names: Ramiro
   - family-names: Apariciogarcia
     given-names: Ramonapariciog
+  - family-names: Aagaard
+    given-names: Rasmus
   - family-names: Nasri
     given-names: Reza
   - family-names: Koehler
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     given-names: Sam
   - family-names: Louviot
     given-names: Samuel
-  - family-names: Ruuskanen
-    given-names: Santeri
   - family-names: Saha
     given-names: Sawradip
   - family-names: Mathot
diff --git a/codemeta.json b/codemeta.json
index 7e8b2cca70a..b2922b2194d 100644
--- a/codemeta.json
+++ b/codemeta.json
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
     "codeRepository": "git+https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python.git",
     "dateCreated": "2010-12-26",
     "datePublished": "2014-08-04",
-    "dateModified": "2023-08-15",
-    "downloadUrl": "https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/archive/v1.5.0.zip",
+    "dateModified": "2023-11-20",
+    "downloadUrl": "https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/archive/v1.6.0.zip",
     "issueTracker": "https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python/issues",
     "name": "MNE-Python",
-    "version": "1.5.0",
+    "version": "1.6.0",
     "description": "MNE-Python is an open-source Python package for exploring, visualizing, and analyzing human neurophysiological data. It provides methods for data input/output, preprocessing, visualization, source estimation, time-frequency analysis, connectivity analysis, machine learning, and statistics.",
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+        "matplotlib>=3.5.0",
+        "tqdm",
+        "pooch>=1.5",
+        "decorator",
+        "packaging",
+        "jinja2",
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+        "defusedxml"
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            "familyName": "Bekhti"
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            "givenName":"José C",
            "familyName": "García Alanis"
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            "givenName":"Ross",
            "familyName": "Maddox"
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            "familyName": "Nunes"
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+           "givenName":"Jack",
+           "familyName": "Zhang"
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+           "familyName": "Ruuskanen"
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+           "email":"tottochan@gmail.com",
+           "givenName":"Padma",
+           "familyName": "Sundaram"
         },
         {
            "@type":"Person",
@@ -1872,6 +1941,12 @@
            "givenName":"Proloy",
            "familyName": "Das"
         },
+        {
+           "@type":"Person",
+           "email":"",
+           "givenName":"Qian",
+           "familyName": "Chu"
+        },
         {
            "@type":"Person",
            "email":"glia@dtu.dk",
@@ -1902,6 +1977,12 @@
            "givenName":"Ramonapariciog",
            "familyName": "Apariciogarcia"
         },
+        {
+           "@type":"Person",
+           "email":"raagaard97@gmail.com",
+           "givenName":"Rasmus",
+           "familyName": "Aagaard"
+        },
         {
            "@type":"Person",
            "email":"reza@ddpo.ir",
@@ -1962,12 +2043,6 @@
            "givenName":"Samuel",
            "familyName": "Louviot"
         },
-        {
-           "@type":"Person",
-           "email":"",
-           "givenName":"Santeri",
-           "familyName": "Ruuskanen"
-        },
         {
            "@type":"Person",
            "email":"",