diff --git a/Changelog.rst b/Changelog.rst
index e88975ae..973d1ef9 100644
--- a/Changelog.rst
+++ b/Changelog.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Changelog
 6.1.0 (dev)
 -----------
 
+6.1.1 (2017-01-05)
+------------------
+ * Updates to SSLContext logic to make it easier to use and have saner defaults.
+ * Doc updates
+
 6.0.0 (2017-11-14)
 ------------------
 
@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ Version compatible with elasticsearch 5.0
    connection classes need to be updated
  * added ``headers`` arg to connections to support custom http headers
  * passing in a keyword parameter with ``None`` as value will cause that param
-   to be ignored 
+   to be ignored
 
 2.4.0 (2016-08-17)
 ------------------
@@ -223,7 +228,7 @@ compatible with 0.90 elasticsearch.
 
 0.4.2 (2013-10-08)
 ------------------
- 
+
  * ``ignore`` param accepted by all APIs
  * Fixes to ``helpers.bulk_index``
 
diff --git a/elasticsearch/__init__.py b/elasticsearch/__init__.py
index 0598a9c7..c10d49ed 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/__init__.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-VERSION = (6, 1, 0, 'dev')
+VERSION = (6, 1, 1)
 __version__ = VERSION
 __versionstr__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d966ed37..504e8867 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from os.path import join, dirname
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 import sys
 
-VERSION = (6, 1, 0, 'dev')
+VERSION = (6, 1, 1)
 __version__ = VERSION
 __versionstr__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))