diff --git a/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md b/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md
index 7559d0bb..3290ce62 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md
+++ b/packages/artifact/RELEASES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # @actions/artifact Releases
 
+## 6.1.0
+
+- Support downloading non-zip artifacts. Zipped artifacts will be decompressed automatically (with an optional override). Un-zipped artifacts will be downloaded as-is.
+
+## 6.0.0
+
+- **Breaking change**: Package is now ESM-only
+  - CommonJS consumers must use dynamic `import()` instead of `require()`
+
 ## 5.0.3
 
 - Bump `@actions/http-client` to `3.0.2`
diff --git a/packages/artifact/package-lock.json b/packages/artifact/package-lock.json
index f4d3ad44..ff43ac37 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/package-lock.json
+++ b/packages/artifact/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@actions/artifact",
-  "version": "6.0.0",
+  "version": "6.1.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@actions/artifact",
-      "version": "6.0.0",
+      "version": "6.1.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@actions/core": "^3.0.0",
@@ -1795,7 +1795,6 @@
       "version": "5.9.3",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/typescript/-/typescript-5.9.3.tgz",
       "integrity": "sha512-jl1vZzPDinLr9eUt3J/t7V6FgNEw9QjvBPdysz9KfQDD41fQrC2Y4vKQdiaUpFT4bXlb1RHhLpp8wtm6M5TgSw==",
-      "dev": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "bin": {
         "tsc": "bin/tsc",
diff --git a/packages/artifact/package.json b/packages/artifact/package.json
index 44180270..705b9948 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/package.json
+++ b/packages/artifact/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@actions/artifact",
-  "version": "6.0.0",
+  "version": "6.1.0",
   "preview": true,
   "description": "Actions artifact lib",
   "keywords": [