diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
index 0cdabdf..36cfc1f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.6.1 - 2014-02-17
+
+IMPORTANT: this is a bug-fix release to address an issue preventing `Reader` from
+consuming messages.
+
+ * #63 - fix connection attributes bug; `heartbeat_interval` as ms
+ * #65 - fix invalid arguments during read error
+ * #66/#64 - add integration tests; improve testing matrix
+
 ## 0.6.0 - 2014-02-13
 
 This release includes an array of new features, refactoring, and bug fixes.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6263c09..64b0029 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 `pynsq` is the official Python client library for [NSQ][nsq].
 
-Latest stable release is **[0.6.0][latest_stable]**
+Latest stable release is **[0.6.1][latest_stable]**
 
 [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/bitly/pynsq.png)](http://travis-ci.org/bitly/pynsq)
 
@@ -14,5 +14,5 @@ Latest stable release is **[0.6.0][latest_stable]**
 
 For HTML documentation, visit [https://pynsq.readthedocs.org/](https://pynsq.readthedocs.org/)
 
-[latest_stable]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=pynsq&version=0.6.0
+[latest_stable]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=pynsq&version=0.6.1
 [nsq]: https://github.com/bitly/nsq
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 0fc351e..bca951a 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '0.6'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '0.6.0'
+release = '0.6.1'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/nsq/version.py b/nsq/version.py
index 319f51a..860bd1e 100644
--- a/nsq/version.py
+++ b/nsq/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # also update in setup.py
-__version__ = '0.6.0'
+__version__ = '0.6.1'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 539881f..069e65b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
 
 
 # also update in nsq/version.py
-version = '0.6.0'
+version = '0.6.1'
 
 
 setup(