diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index aef1350..ac41df6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ Versioned according to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [0.6.1] - 2022-11-10
+
 Fixed:
 
   * re-use METS basename for output, #40, #41
@@ -123,6 +125,7 @@ Fixed:
   * ocrd-tool: add `steps` and `categories`
 
 <!-- link-labels -->
+[0.6.1]: ../../compare/v0.6.1...v0.6.0
 [0.6.0]: ../../compare/v0.6.0...v0.5.0
 [0.5.0]: ../../compare/v0.5.0...v0.4.1
 [0.4.1]: ../../compare/v0.4.1...v0.4.0
diff --git a/ocrd-tool.json b/ocrd-tool.json
index 18ee468..cff06cb 100644
--- a/ocrd-tool.json
+++ b/ocrd-tool.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "version": "0.6.0",
+  "version": "0.6.1",
   "git_url": "https://github.com/OCR-D/ocrd_fileformat",
   "tools": {
     "ocrd-fileformat-transform": {