diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index e56121df..19391150 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,29 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+2.6.1 (2015-04-22)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+- Fix issue with import machinery to deal with an unvendored urllib3 and
+  chardet when operating from within a PyInstaller executable. (#2465 redux)
+
+- Simplify the PreparedRequest.prepare API: We no longer require the user to
+  pass an empty list to the hooks keyword argument. (c.f. #2552)
+
+- Resolve redirects now receives and forwards all of the original arguments to
+  the adapter. (#2503)
+
+- Handle UnicodeDecodeErrors when trying to deal with a unicode URL that
+  cannot be encoded in ASCII. (#2540)
+
+- Populate the parsed path of the URI field when performing Digest
+  Authentication. (#2426)
+
+- Copy a PreparedRequest's CookieJar more reliably when it is not an instance
+  of RequestsCookieJar. (#2527)
+
 2.6.0 (2015-03-14)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/requests/__init__.py b/requests/__init__.py
index 47165761..4174629d 100644
--- a/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/__init__.py
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ is at <http://python-requests.org>.
 """
 
 __title__ = 'requests'
-__version__ = '2.6.0'
-__build__ = 0x020600
+__version__ = '2.6.1'
+__build__ = 0x020601
 __author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
 __license__ = 'Apache 2.0'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015 Kenneth Reitz'