diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 42051bb3d5..dd63335e58 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines.
 
+## [6.1.0](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/compare/v6.0.0...v6.1.0) (2023-09-14)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **NODE-5634:** bump bson version to ^6.1.0 ([#3866](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/issues/3866)) ([c6edabb](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/commit/c6edabb8fa4c6f8d80b028a96eacd26975460f8a))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **NODE-5551:** set AWS region from environment variable for STSClient ([#3831](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/issues/3831)) ([e9a5079](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/commit/e9a50793143c53f5f70a720e17cf6683f56f7229))
+* **NODE-5588:** recursive calls to next cause memory leak ([#3841](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/issues/3841)) ([9a8fdb2](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/commit/9a8fdb22853a7a84dfa8b8e87a6b5d808ae00b6e))
+
 ## [6.0.0](https://github.com/mongodb/node-mongodb-native/compare/v5.7.0...v6.0.0) (2023-08-28)
 
 
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 87938ee57d..b477b30ccb 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "mongodb",
-  "version": "6.0.0",
+  "version": "6.1.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "mongodb",
-      "version": "6.0.0",
+      "version": "6.1.0",
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@mongodb-js/saslprep": "^1.1.0",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e91cbb7b91..7011dbed03 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mongodb",
-  "version": "6.0.0",
+  "version": "6.1.0",
   "description": "The official MongoDB driver for Node.js",
   "main": "lib/index.js",
   "files": [