diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index abe5b5d..b957e92 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 /boom-1.4.tar.gz
 /boom-1.5.1.tar.gz
 /boom-1.6.0.tar.gz
+/boom-1.6.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/boom-boot.spec b/boom-boot.spec
index b1b4b8e..ef6ec2e 100644
--- a/boom-boot.spec
+++ b/boom-boot.spec
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 %global sphinx_docs 1
 
 Name:		boom-boot
-Version:	1.6.0
-Release:	4%{?dist}
+Version:	1.6.1
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	%{summary}
 
 License:	GPL-2.0-only
@@ -140,6 +140,9 @@ rm doc/conf.py
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue May 21 2024 Bryan Gurney <bgurney@redhat.com> - 1.6.1-1
+- Update to release 1.6.1.
+
 * Tue Jan 23 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.0-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index b22db41..0704ee7 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (boom-1.6.0.tar.gz) = 533ddbfaaa532a2a5a4553f8fa4c94cbf872df05c09e47cbdbb76a8191468b8b4ea4b385c88f536ec0c76e83c8fe8695019f9f6ebd8c9985cd8c399a4d5a2c98
+SHA512 (boom-1.6.1.tar.gz) = 33a66e9a4ed8b9a4ff727a542725944cd52c58485ebd9e9c5df9b0557a73c575f4427de07134b72cd248a41a41f1a52d99fc949481170977b0d28ad756e1d793