diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 7d5ec372de7..0b89eca5f55 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -31,3 +31,6 @@ Mark Chu-Carroll <markcc@foursquare.com>
 Mark McBride <mmcbride@twitter.com>
 Stu Hood <stuhood@gmail.com>
 Yi Cheng <wisechengyi@gmail.com>
+Fiona Condone <fiona@giphy.com>
+Yujie Chen <yujieproject@gmail.com>
+Ny Saechao <nysaechao@outlook.com>
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index 6d9ff60390d..3d7492cafef 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Created by running `build-support/bin/contributors.sh`.
+Created by running `./build-support/bin/contributors.sh`.
 
 + Aaron Mitchell
 + Alan Paulin
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ Created by running `build-support/bin/contributors.sh`.
 + Nick Howard
 + Nik Shkrob
 + Nitay Joffe
++ Ny Saechao
 + Oliver Gould
 + Patrick Lawson
 + Paul Groudas
diff --git a/src/python/pants/notes/master.rst b/src/python/pants/notes/master.rst
index b7323809af9..19c499ba87f 100644
--- a/src/python/pants/notes/master.rst
+++ b/src/python/pants/notes/master.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,35 @@ Master Pre-Releases
 This document describes ``dev`` releases which occur weekly from master, and which do
 not undergo the vetting associated with ``stable`` releases.
 
+
+1.3.0.dev6 (1/06/2017)
+-----------------------
+
+API Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Refactor the thrift codegen task. (#4155)
+  `PR #4155 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/4155>`_
+
+* Finish splitting up the codegen backend. (#4147)
+  `PR #4147 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/4147>`_
+
+Refactoring, Improvements, and Tooling
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Fix import order issues introduced by a previous commit. (#4156)
+  `PR #4156 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/4156>`_
+
+* Bump default nodejs version to 6.9.1 from 6.2.0 (#4161)
+  `PR #4161 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/4161>`_
+
+* Make post_stat async (#4157)
+  `PR #4157 <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/4157>`_
+
+* Fix release script owners check.
+  `Commit <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/commit/a40234429cc05f6483f91b08f10037429710b5b4>`_
+
+
 1.3.0.dev5 (12/30/2016)
 -----------------------
 
diff --git a/src/python/pants/version.py b/src/python/pants/version.py
index 8331e9efca2..ac1b3f8da84 100644
--- a/src/python/pants/version.py
+++ b/src/python/pants/version.py
@@ -8,6 +8,6 @@
 from packaging.version import Version
 
 
-VERSION = '1.3.0.dev5'
+VERSION = '1.3.0.dev6'
 
 PANTS_SEMVER = Version(VERSION)