From 673a6d4aa391eae03adf4918298dd96d02bc96a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 18:54:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Cut v1.6.1

Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
---
 CHANGELOG.md | 5 +++++
 VERSION      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f200438d..89d76383 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+## 1.6.1 / 2023-09-05
+
+* [SECURITY] Build precompiled binaries with current Go version (1.21.0) to avoid known bugs in older Go versions.
+* [BUGFIX] Update dependencies to pull in possibly relevant bugfixes.
+
 ## 1.6.0 / 2023-05-25
 
 * [FEATURE] Add snappy encoding support for `/metrics` endpoint. #518
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index dc1e644a..9c6d6293 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.6.0
+1.6.1