diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 9d46bdb..6d59825 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [6.1.1] - 2025-11-20
+
 ### Fixed
 
 - Parsing of `CORS_ORIGINS`, `CORS_HEADERS`, and `CORS_METHODS` from environment variables ([#313](https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/pull/313))
@@ -516,7 +518,8 @@ As a part of this release, this repository was extracted from the main
 
 - First PyPi release!
 
-[Unreleased]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/6.1.0..main>
+[Unreleased]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/6.1.1..main>
+[6.1.1]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/6.1.0..6.1.1>
 [6.1.0]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/6.0.2..6.1.0>
 [6.0.2]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/6.0.1..6.0.2>
 [6.0.1]: <https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-pgstac/compare/6.0.0..6.0.1>
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index dfda3e0..f3b5af3 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.1.0
+6.1.1
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3922966..e1ae7dd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ ignore = [
 ]
 
 [tool.bumpversion]
-current_version = "6.1.0"
+current_version = "6.1.1"
 parse = """(?x)
     (?P<major>\\d+)\\.
     (?P<minor>\\d+)\\.
diff --git a/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py b/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
index 3da5de3..72c0a52 100644
--- a/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
+++ b/stac_fastapi/pgstac/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """library version."""
 
-__version__ = "6.1.0"
+__version__ = "6.1.1"