diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 124ca3949ea69173ecb943c9ce308985ccf46da5..1779cefee095bee149b2253a7ac16472a242ec78 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.6.1 - 2021-07-29
+
+* Remove `print()` statement that was used during testing
+
+
 ## 1.6.0 - 2021-07-28
 
 * Dropped support for Python 2.7 and 3.5
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 91af43b4ba74745321c20950ee1f8a31fc97e45b..f00d1330b75a532b4e557e1390c59e545e039029 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ with open(abs_path('README.md'), mode='rb') as fd:
 
 setup(
     name='smbprotocol',
-    version='1.6.0',
+    version='1.6.1',
     packages=['smbclient', 'smbprotocol'],
     install_requires=[
         'cryptography>=2.0',