diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7c3caa3..b056132 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [v1.6.1](https://github.com/allenai/beaker-py/releases/tag/v1.6.1) - 2022-06-24
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Added support for older versions of Pydantic (back to v1.8.2).
diff --git a/beaker/version.py b/beaker/version.py
index 26f57ad..3fba0a6 100644
--- a/beaker/version.py
+++ b/beaker/version.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 _MAJOR = "1"
 _MINOR = "6"
-_PATCH = "0"
+_PATCH = "1"
 _SUFFIX = ""
 
 VERSION_SHORT = "{0}.{1}".format(_MAJOR, _MINOR)