From a175068f3366bb12dba8231f2a017ca2f24024a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Thiel <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:11:12 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] bump patch level

---
 VERSION                | 2 +-
 doc/source/changes.rst | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 3ad0595ad..9cec7165a 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.1.5
+3.1.6
diff --git a/doc/source/changes.rst b/doc/source/changes.rst
index 0fd5637c4..d1fd30252 100644
--- a/doc/source/changes.rst
+++ b/doc/source/changes.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+3.1.6
+=====
+
+* Greatly reduced package size, see https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/pull/1031
+
 3.1.5
 =====