diff --git a/glusterfs.spec b/glusterfs.spec
index d7e7256..8cedab9 100644
--- a/glusterfs.spec
+++ b/glusterfs.spec
@@ -138,10 +138,6 @@
 ## All %%global definitions should be placed here and keep them sorted
 ##
 
-%if ( 0%{?fedora} || ( 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} > 6 ) )
-%global _with_systemd true
-%endif
-
 %if ( 0%{?fedora} || ( 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} > 6 ) )
 %global _with_firewalld --enable-firewalld
 %endif
@@ -175,7 +171,6 @@
 %global _rundir %{_localstatedir}/run
 %endif
 
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
 %global service_start()   /bin/systemctl --quiet start %1.service || : \
 %{nil}
 %global service_stop()    /bin/systemctl --quiet stop %1.service || :\
@@ -188,24 +183,6 @@
 %global glusterta_svcfile %{_unitdir}/gluster-ta-volume.service
 %global glustereventsd_svcfile %{_unitdir}/glustereventsd.service
 %global glusterfssharedstorage_svcfile %{_unitdir}/glusterfssharedstorage.service
-%else
-%global systemd_post()  /sbin/chkconfig --add %1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : \
-%{nil}
-%global systemd_preun() /sbin/chkconfig --del %1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : \
-%{nil}
-%global systemd_postun_with_restart() /sbin/service %1 condrestart >/dev/null 2>&1 || : \
-%{nil}
-%global service_start()   /sbin/service %1 start >/dev/null 2>&1 || : \
-%{nil}
-%global service_stop()    /sbin/service %1 stop >/dev/null 2>&1 || : \
-%{nil}
-%global service_install() install -D -p -m 0755 %{_sourcedir}/%1.init %{buildroot}%2 \
-%{nil}
-# can't seem to make a generic macro that works
-%global glusterd_svcfile   %{_sysconfdir}/init.d/glusterd
-%global glusterfsd_svcfile %{_sysconfdir}/init.d/glusterfsd
-%global glustereventsd_svcfile %{_sysconfdir}/init.d/glustereventsd
-%endif
 
 %{!?_pkgdocdir: %global _pkgdocdir %{_docdir}/%{name}-%{version}}
 
@@ -232,7 +209,7 @@
 Summary:          Distributed File System
 %if ( 0%{_for_fedora_koji_builds} )
 Name:             glusterfs
-Version:          6.0
+Version:          6.1
 Release:          %{?prereltag:0.}1%{?prereltag:.%{prereltag}}%{?dist}
 %else
 Name:             @PACKAGE_NAME@
@@ -252,14 +229,10 @@ Source0:          @PACKAGE_NAME@-@PACKAGE_VERSION@.tar.gz
 %endif
 
 Requires(pre):    shadow-utils
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
 BuildRequires:    systemd
-%endif
 
 Requires:         %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
 %{?systemd_requires}
-%endif
 Requires(post):   /sbin/ldconfig
 Requires(postun): /sbin/ldconfig
 %if 0%{?_with_asan:1} && !( 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} < 7 )
@@ -443,9 +416,7 @@ Requires:         python%{_pythonver}-requests
 %if ( 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} < 7 )
 Requires:         python-argparse
 %endif
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
 %{?systemd_requires}
-%endif
 
 %description events
 GlusterFS is a distributed file-system capable of scaling to several
@@ -658,14 +629,7 @@ Requires:         %{name}-client-xlators = %{version}-%{release}
 # lvm2 for snapshot, and nfs-utils and rpcbind/portmap for gnfs server
 Requires:         psmisc
 Requires:         lvm2
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
 %{?systemd_requires}
-%else
-Requires(post):   /sbin/chkconfig
-Requires(preun):  /sbin/service
-Requires(preun):  /sbin/chkconfig
-Requires(postun): /sbin/service
-%endif
 Requires(post):   /sbin/ldconfig
 Requires(postun): /sbin/ldconfig
 %if (0%{?_with_firewalld:1})
@@ -1192,9 +1156,7 @@ exit 0
      %{_datadir}/glusterfs/scripts/setup-thin-arbiter.sh
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/glusterfs/thin-arbiter.vol
 
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
 %{_unitdir}/gluster-ta-volume.service
-%endif
 
 
 %if ( 0%{!?_without_georeplication:1} )
@@ -1297,9 +1259,7 @@ exit 0
 %if ( 0%{_for_fedora_koji_builds} )
 %glusterfsd_svcfile
 %endif
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
 %glusterfssharedstorage_svcfile
-%endif
 
 # binaries
 %{_sbindir}/glusterd
@@ -1410,11 +1370,9 @@ exit 0
 %dir %{_datadir}/glusterfs
 %dir %{_datadir}/glusterfs/scripts
 %{_datadir}/glusterfs/scripts/stop-all-gluster-processes.sh
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
      %{_libexecdir}/glusterfs/mount-shared-storage.sh
      %{_datadir}/glusterfs/scripts/control-cpu-load.sh
      %{_datadir}/glusterfs/scripts/control-mem.sh
-%endif
 
 # Incrementalapi
 %dir %{_libexecdir}/glusterfs
@@ -1442,14 +1400,13 @@ exit 0
 %{_sbindir}/glustereventsd
 %{_sbindir}/gluster-eventsapi
 %{_datadir}/glusterfs/scripts/eventsdash.py*
-%if ( 0%{?_with_systemd:1} )
 %{_unitdir}/glustereventsd.service
-%else
-%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/glustereventsd
-%endif
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Apr 17 2019  Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle[at]redhat.com> - 6.1-1
+- 6.1 GA
+
 * Wed Mar 20 2019  Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle[at]redhat.com> - 6.0-1
 - 6.0 GA
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index dcf42ed..c9b192d 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (glusterfs-6.0.tar.gz) = fc4f4ee75b3936469b7c4be146545eb88d2cf3583d5f101bcacb2805c842aa95f69d1c023dee4dac32ebe01cdc9ede4814f9364482e8815e451e43660e6c74b9
+SHA512 (glusterfs-6.1.tar.gz) = 53f4195ecb565a8dcc0d66e74d07dd7334e3c8b1cc1671517612be32a00e9e9bbfb5e983955c4f116b25f7df990bcd1c05bbd3d0b740e9f8c76a16b9b16bec00