diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a46e6e6b..f8370d3d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## [1.6.1](https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/releases/tag/v1.6.1)
+Miscellaneous enhancements and bug fixes
+    * Make Namespace not to be mandatory for KV operations (https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/pull/212),(https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/pull/203)
+    * Make the Python tests be executed on TravisCI for both: TS and KV (https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/pull/213)
+    * Critical, Fix improper Spark partition order (https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/pull/211)
+    * Critical, Fix Python serialization for JSON values with more than 4 keys (https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/pull/210)
+    * Critical, fix empty writes (https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/pull/205)
+    * Fix value mapping for JSON array values on KV reads (https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/pull/215)  
+    * Fix Python .partitionBy2iKeys() error (https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/pull/216)
+    
+
 ## [1.6.0](https://github.com/basho/spark-riak-connector/releases/tag/v1.6.0)
 
 * Support Python and KV buckets
diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 2e5130c5..33620a18 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ lazy val sparkRiakConnectorTestUtils = (project in file("test-utils"))
 
 lazy val commonSettings = Seq(
   organization := "com.basho.riak",
-  version := "1.6.1-SNAPSHOT",
+  version := "1.6.1",
   scalaVersion := "2.10.6",
   crossPaths := true,
   spName := s"basho/$namespace",