diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index cb51d53f..e8cf62e1 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Bleach changes
 ==============
 
-Version 6.1.0 (in development)
-------------------------------
+Version 6.1.0 (October 6th, 2023)
+---------------------------------
 
-**Backwards incompatibel changes**
+**Backwards incompatible changes**
 
 * Dropped support for Python 3.7. (#709)
 
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ None
 
 **Bug fixes**
 
+* Add support for Python 3.12. (#710)
+* Fix linkify with arrays in querystring (#436)
+* Handle more cases with < folloed by character data (#705)
+* Fix entities inside a tags in linkification (#704)
+* Update cap for tinycss2 to <1.3 (#702)
+* Updated Sphinx requirement
+* Add dependabot for github actions and update github actions
+
 
 Version 6.0.0 (January 23rd, 2023)
 ----------------------------------
diff --git a/bleach/__init__.py b/bleach/__init__.py
index c10004d8..12e93b4d 100644
--- a/bleach/__init__.py
+++ b/bleach/__init__.py
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 
 
 # yyyymmdd
-__releasedate__ = ""
+__releasedate__ = "20231006"
 # x.y.z or x.y.z.dev0 -- semver
-__version__ = "6.1.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "6.1.0"
 
 
 __all__ = ["clean", "linkify"]