diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index bfa2e3f7c..0b9e2e042 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4122,7 +4122,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "getrandom",
  "polars-arrow",
@@ -4141,7 +4141,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-arrow"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "atoi",
@@ -4188,7 +4188,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-compute"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "bytemuck",
  "either",
@@ -4203,7 +4203,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-core"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
@@ -4236,7 +4236,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-error"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "avro-schema",
  "object_store",
@@ -4249,7 +4249,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-expr"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
@@ -4268,7 +4268,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-io"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "async-trait",
@@ -4314,7 +4314,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-json"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "chrono",
@@ -4335,7 +4335,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-lazy"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
@@ -4362,7 +4362,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-mem-engine"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "futures",
  "memmap2",
@@ -4383,7 +4383,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-ops"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "argminmax",
@@ -4416,7 +4416,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-parquet"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "async-stream",
@@ -4443,7 +4443,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-pipe"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-channel",
  "crossbeam-queue",
@@ -4470,7 +4470,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-plan"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "bitflags 2.6.0",
@@ -4503,7 +4503,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-row"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "bytemuck",
  "polars-arrow",
@@ -4514,7 +4514,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-sql"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "hex",
  "once_cell",
@@ -4534,7 +4534,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-time"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "atoi",
  "bytemuck",
@@ -4555,7 +4555,7 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "polars-utils"
 version = "0.42.0"
-source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?rev=37a492e#37a492eb53622b812611bb26466f6d3e23b12a1c"
+source = "git+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars?tag=py-1.6.0#6ff1c70d25f108306ea53138b11eb262288b7251"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "bytemuck",
@@ -5530,9 +5530,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-native-certs"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.7.3"
 source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "04182dffc9091a404e0fc069ea5cd60e5b866c3adf881eff99a32d048242dffa"
+checksum = "e5bfb394eeed242e909609f56089eecfe5fda225042e8b171791b9c95f5931e5"
 dependencies = [
  "openssl-probe",
  "rustls-pemfile",
@@ -6189,9 +6189,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "sysinfo"
-version = "0.31.3"
+version = "0.31.4"
 source = "registry+/~https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2b92e0bdf838cbc1c4c9ba14f9c97a7ec6cdcd1ae66b10e1e42775a25553f45d"
+checksum = "355dbe4f8799b304b05e1b0f05fc59b2a18d36645cf169607da45bde2f69a1be"
 dependencies = [
  "core-foundation-sys",
  "libc",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 7e282a35f..faa880dea 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -285,9 +285,9 @@ local-encoding = { git = "/~https://github.com/slonopotamus/local-encoding-rs", br
 # BUILD NOTE: Be sure to set QSV_POLARS_REV below to the latest commit short hash or tag 
 # of polars/py-polars before building qsv. This allows us to show the polars rev/tag in --version.
 # if we are using a release version of Rust Polars, leave QSV_POLARS_REV empty
-# QSV_POLARS_REV=37a492e
-# polars = { git = "/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", tag = "py-1.4.1" }
-polars = { git = "/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", rev = "37a492e" }
+# QSV_POLARS_REV=py-1.6.0
+polars = { git = "/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", tag = "py-1.6.0" }
+# polars = { git = "/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars", rev = "f0ba999" }
 
 
 [features]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ecde944cd..6eb5e6489 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 😣: uses additional memory proportional to the cardinality of the columns in the CSV.  
 🧠: expensive operations are memoized with available inter-session Redis/Disk caching for fetch commands.  
 🗄️: [Extended input support](#extended-input-support).  
-🐻‍❄️: command powered by [![polars 0.42.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/polars-0.42.0-blue)](/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/releases/tag/rs-0.42.0).  
+🐻‍❄️: command powered by [![polars 0.42.0 at py-1.6.0 tag](https://img.shields.io/badge/polars-0.42.0-blue)](/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/releases/tag/py-1.6.0).  
 🤖: command uses Natural Language Processing & General AI techniques.  
 🏎️: multithreaded and/or faster when an index (📇) is available.  
 🚀: multithreaded even without an index.  
diff --git a/src/cmd/sqlp.rs b/src/cmd/sqlp.rs
index 205416269..502125e52 100644
--- a/src/cmd/sqlp.rs
+++ b/src/cmd/sqlp.rs
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Polars SQL is a SQL dialect, converting SQL queries to fast Polars LazyFrame exp
 (see https://docs.pola.rs/user-guide/sql/intro/).
 
 For a list of SQL functions and keywords supported by Polars SQL, see
-/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/rs-0.42.0/crates/polars-sql/src/functions.rs and
-/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/rs-0.42.0/crates/polars-sql/src/keywords.rs.
+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/py-1.6.0/crates/polars-sql/src/functions.rs and
+/~https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/py-1.6.0/crates/polars-sql/src/keywords.rs.
 https://docs.pola.rs/py-polars/html/reference/sql/index.html also provides a more readable
 version of the SQL functions and keywords, though be aware that it's for the Python version
 of Polars, so there will be some minor syntax differences.