diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 17ad5d95ab..55dd18d939 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Rocksdb Change Log
-## Unreleased
+
+## 6.1.0 (3/27/2019)
 ### New Features
 * Introduce two more stats levels, kExceptHistogramOrTimers and kExceptTimers.
 * Added a feature to perform data-block sampling for compressibility, and report stats to user.
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/version.h b/include/rocksdb/version.h
index af13d20c8e..9980c237fe 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/version.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/version.h
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #pragma once
 
 #define ROCKSDB_MAJOR 6
-#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 0
+#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 1
 #define ROCKSDB_PATCH 0
 
 // Do not use these. We made the mistake of declaring macros starting with