diff --git a/avrdude/ChangeLog b/avrdude/ChangeLog
index c91de2bc..b9a4c61a 100644
--- a/avrdude/ChangeLog
+++ b/avrdude/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-09-17  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version to 6.0.1.
+
 2013-09-17  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	bug #40055: AVRDUDE segfaults when writing eeprom
diff --git a/avrdude/configure.ac b/avrdude/configure.ac
index 9224080f..9ce22d18 100644
--- a/avrdude/configure.ac
+++ b/avrdude/configure.ac
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
-AC_INIT(avrdude, 6.0, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
+AC_INIT(avrdude, 6.0.1, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST