diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 45c4a07..e040e4c 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,45 +1,18 @@
-libssh2 1.6.0
+libssh2 1.6.1
 
 This release includes the following changes:
 
- o Added CMake build system
- o Added libssh2_userauth_publickey_frommemory()
+ o
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
- o wait_socket: wrong use of difftime() [1]
- o userauth: Fixed prompt text no longer being copied to the prompts struct
- o mingw build: allow to pass custom CFLAGS
- o Let mansyntax.sh work regardless of where it is called from
- o Init HMAC_CTX before using it
- o direct_tcpip: Fixed channel write
- o WinCNG: fixed backend breakage
- o OpenSSL: caused by introducing libssh2_hmac_ctx_init
- o userauth.c: fix possible dereferences of a null pointer
- o wincng: Added explicit clear memory feature to WinCNG backend
- o openssl.c: fix possible segfault in case EVP_DigestInit fails
- o wincng: fix return code of libssh2_md5_init()
- o kex: do not ignore failure of libssh2_sha1_init()
- o scp: fix that scp_send may transmit not initialised memory [3]
- o scp.c: improved command length calculation
- o nonblocking examples: fix warning about unused tvdiff on Mac OS X
- o configure: make clear-memory default but WARN if backend unsupported
- o OpenSSL: Enable use of OpenSSL that doesn't have DSA
- o OpenSSL: Use correct no-blowfish #define
- o kex: fix libgcrypt memory leaks of bignum [2]
- o libssh2_channel_open: more detailed error message
- o wincng: fixed memleak in (block) cipher destructor
- 
+ o
  
 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
-  Alexander Lamaison, Daniel Stenberg, David Calavera, Hannes Domani,
-  Jakob Egger, Joe Turpin, Marc Hoersken, Viktor Szakáts, Will Cosgrove,
-  (9 contributors)
- 
+
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
 
- [1] = https://github.com/bagder/libssh2/issues/1
- [2] = https://trac.libssh2.org/ticket/168
- [3] = https://trac.libssh2.org/ticket/244
+ [1] = 
+
diff --git a/include/libssh2.h b/include/libssh2.h
index 5b85eba..0646929 100644
--- a/include/libssh2.h
+++ b/include/libssh2.h
@@ -46,13 +46,13 @@
    to make the BANNER define (used by src/session.c) be a valid SSH
    banner. Release versions have no appended strings and may of course not
    have dashes either. */
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION                             "1.6.0_DEV"
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION                             "1.6.1_DEV"
 
 /* The numeric version number is also available "in parts" by using these
    defines: */
 #define LIBSSH2_VERSION_MAJOR                       1
 #define LIBSSH2_VERSION_MINOR                       6
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_PATCH                       0
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_PATCH                       1
 
 /* This is the numeric version of the libssh2 version number, meant for easier
    parsing and comparions by programs. The LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM define will
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
    and it is always a greater number in a more recent release. It makes
    comparisons with greater than and less than work.
 */
-#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM                         0x010600
+#define LIBSSH2_VERSION_NUM                         0x010601
 
 /*
  * This is the date and time when the full source package was created. The