diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index c266cbc..8060d66 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ A note on versioning: This librarys major version will grow with the APIs
 version number. Breaking changes will be indicated by a change in the minor
 (or major) version number, and will generally be avoided.  
 
-v1.6.0
+v1.6.1
 ------
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Change behaviour of streaming api handlers to no longer raise an exception when an unknown event is received and change the contract of the unknown event handler to explicitly state that it will not receive events once Mastodon.py updates.
 * 3.1.3 support
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 306563e..0ab6777 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ author = u'Lorenz Diener'
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = u'1.6'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'1.6.0'
+release = u'1.6.1'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 498246b..ff5fab7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ extras = {
 }
 
 setup(name='Mastodon.py',
-      version='1.6.0',
+      version='1.6.1',
       description='Python wrapper for the Mastodon API',
       packages=['mastodon'],
       install_requires=[