diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a9dae086..f79fdb07 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-03-12  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version to 6.1.
+
 2014-03-12  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	* pgm.c (pgm_free): Cleanup police: destroy the p->usbpid
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 614e6318..1542d08b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ Current:
   * Major changes compared to the previous version:
     - Atmel EDBG protocol support added (JTAGICE3, XplainedPro, Atmel-ICE)
 
-  * New devices supported:
-    - ...
-
   * New programmers supported:
     - Atmel DFU, using FLIP protocol version 1 (AT90USB and ATmega*U* devices),
       or version 2 (Xmega devices)
@@ -32,7 +29,7 @@ Current:
     - patch #XXXX: xxx
 
   * Internals:
-    - ...
+    - (Some) programmers can take a list of USB PIDs now.
 
 
 Version 6.0:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bb82f3f5..6dbaa8b6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
-AC_INIT(avrdude, 6.1-svn-20140226, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
+AC_INIT(avrdude, 6.1, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST