diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41e1155
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+## [1.6.0] - 2020-05-12
+
+### Added
+
+- added storagehub retry in InputsManager class, getLocalFile method
+
+### Changed
+ -
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b1fa05b..d93d93d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 	</parent>
 	<groupId>org.gcube.dataanalysis</groupId>
 	<artifactId>dataminer</artifactId>
-	<version>1.5.9-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<name>dataminer</name>
 	<description>An e-Infrastructure service providing state-of-the art DataMining algorithms and ecological modelling approaches under the Web Processing Service (WPS) standard.</description>
 	
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/dataanalysis/wps/statisticalmanager/synchserver/mapping/InputsManager.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/dataanalysis/wps/statisticalmanager/synchserver/mapping/InputsManager.java
index 074b72c..cc84cb5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/dataanalysis/wps/statisticalmanager/synchserver/mapping/InputsManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/dataanalysis/wps/statisticalmanager/synchserver/mapping/InputsManager.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ public class InputsManager {
 
 	private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(InputsManager.class);
 
+	private static final long SHUB_RETRY_MILLIS = 2000;
+
 	LinkedHashMap<String, Object> inputs;
 	List<String> generatedTables;
 	List<File> generatedFiles;
@@ -242,8 +245,17 @@ public class InputsManager {
 				InputStream is = null;
 				HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
 				URL url = new URL(subfilelink);
-				urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
-				is = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
+				try {
+					urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+					is = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
+				}catch(IOException e) {
+					LOGGER.warn("download from storagehub failed. Retry ongoing...");
+					LOGGER.debug("waiting "+SHUB_RETRY_MILLIS+" millis ");
+					Thread.sleep(SHUB_RETRY_MILLIS);					
+					urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+					is = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
+					LOGGER.debug(" retry success ");
+				}				
 				// retrieve payload: for test purpose only
 				String fileNameTemp = inputNameFromHttpHeader(subfilelink);