diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4a8e5ea1..e8e023d2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Features
+
+- Bump sentry runtime SDK version to `6.0.0` ([#321](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-android-gradle-plugin/pull/321))
+
 ### Fixes
 
 - Fix `OkHttp` auto-instrumentation crash, when `sentry-android-okhttp` is not present on classpath ([#327](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-android-gradle-plugin/pull/327))
diff --git a/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/SentryPlugin.kt b/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/SentryPlugin.kt
index 52751678..4a9c10f7 100644
--- a/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/SentryPlugin.kt
+++ b/plugin-build/src/main/kotlin/io/sentry/android/gradle/SentryPlugin.kt
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ class SentryPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
     companion object {
         const val SENTRY_ORG_PARAMETER = "sentryOrg"
         const val SENTRY_PROJECT_PARAMETER = "sentryProject"
-        internal const val SENTRY_SDK_VERSION = "5.7.0"
+        internal const val SENTRY_SDK_VERSION = "6.1.0"
 
         internal val sep = File.separator