added release notes for 0.6.0 and updated authors

AUTHORS.md

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ possible:
  * Antoine Comte
  * Arya Irani
  * Ash Pook
+ * Aλ
  * Benjamin Thuillier
  * Binh Nguyen
  * Bobby Rauchenberg
@@ -86,13 +87,15 @@ possible:
  * Sarunas Valaskevicius
  * Shunsuke Otani
  * Sinisa Louc
+ * Stephen Carman
  * Stephen Judkins
  * Stew O'Connor
  * Sumedh Mungee
  * Tomas Mikula
  * Travis Brown
  * Wedens
  * Yosef Fertel
+ * yilinwei
  * Zach Abbott
 
 We've tried to include everyone, but if you've made a contribution to

CHANGES.md

@@ -1,3 +1,57 @@
+## Version 0.6.0
+
+> 2016 May 19
+
+Version 0.6.0 is the sixth release.
+
+Highlights of this release:
+
+* [#990](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/990):  Separate free package into its own module
+* [#1001](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1001):  Introduce cats-kernel and remove algebra dependency
+
+This release also includes some API changes:
+
+* [#1046](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1046):  summon `ApplicativeErrorSyntax` for `F[_]` instead of `F[_, _]`
+* [#1034](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1034):  Don't combine lefts on `Xor` and `XorT` `combine`
+* [#1018](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1018):  Remove blocking (JVM-only) Future instances
+* [#877](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/877):  Remove required laziness in Prod, fixes #615
+
+
+And additions:
+
+* [#1032](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1032):  Added `Coproduct` `fold`
+* [#1028](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1028):  Added `withFilter` for `OptionT`
+* [#1014](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1014):  Added `Monoid` instance for `WriterT`
+* [#1029](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1029):  Added an `ApplicativeError` instance for `Kleisli` and a `MonadError[Option, Unit]` to `std.option`
+* [#1023](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1023):  Add `XorT#fromEither`
+* [#984](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/984):  Add `Validated.ensure`
+* [#1020](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1020):  Add `Traverse.traverseM`
+
+
+And some code improvements:
+
+* [#1015](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1015):  Add `Apply.map2Eval` and allow traverse laziness
+* [#1024](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1024):  Override reverse on reversed `PartialOrder` to return original instance
+* [#880](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/880):  Optimize `Eq[Vector[A]]` instance
+* [#1019](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1019):  Use `Future#successful` in `pureEval` when possible
+
+And bug fixes:
+
+* [#1011](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1011):  Add missing type parameters.
+
+And some other improvements to the organization documentation, tutorials, laws and tests, including:
+
+* [#1045](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1045):  Add a link to the `OptionT` documentation from the monad docs.
+* [#1043](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1043):  Add notes about kind-projector usage in docs
+* [#1042](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1042):  Cats 0.5.0 no longer pre-release
+* [#1036](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1036):  Add FPiS to the "Resources for Learners" section
+* [#1035](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1035):  Run kernel-law tests for JS as part of build
+* [#991](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/991):  Replace `~>` with `NaturalTransformation`
+* [#1027](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1027):  Remove unnecessary `nelSemigroup` from `traverse` doc
+* [#1022](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1022):  Add law-checking for `asMeetPartialOrder` and `asJoinPartialOrder`
+* [#990](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/990):  Separate free package into its own module
+
+
 ## Version 0.5.0
 
 > 2016 April 28