diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index bfe6e8f67e3..2878ae6e5c5 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "5.135.0-preview"
+    ".": "6.0.0-preview"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8a5aa729f5c..d7e9e0517b6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project does NOT adhere to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html) and packages shipped from the beta service library will always be in `preview` as changes to the API are for non production use and commonly ship breaking changes.
 
 
+## [6.0.0-preview](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-dotnet/compare/5.135.0-preview...6.0.0-preview) (2026-05-01)
+
+
+### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
+
+* Dropped net5.0 target framework. The SDK now targets netstandard2.0, netstandard2.1, net8.0, and net10.0.
+
+### Features
+
+* update target frameworks to net8.0 and net10.0, drop net5.0 ([#1111](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-dotnet/issues/1111)) ([402ffb9](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-dotnet/commit/402ffb920f029b6588aa643252d45a6484e79929))
+
 ## [5.135.0-preview](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-dotnet/compare/5.134.0-preview...5.135.0-preview) (2026-04-24)
 
 
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.Graph/Microsoft.Graph.Beta.csproj b/src/Microsoft.Graph/Microsoft.Graph.Beta.csproj
index 83b3ef5424f..750385eb5fe 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.Graph/Microsoft.Graph.Beta.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.Graph/Microsoft.Graph.Beta.csproj
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     </PackageReleaseNotes>
     <!-- edit this value to change the current major.minor.patch version -->
     <!-- x-release-please-start-version -->
-    <Version>5.135.0-preview</Version>
+    <Version>6.0.0-preview</Version>
     <!-- x-release-please-end -->
     <!-- adds a version suffix if the Prerelease environment variable is set. BUILD_BUILDID is an
     environment variable set by Azure pipelines from the build. We can use the buildid to correlate