diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b537bcb0..723f328d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 NEWS for OpenSC -- History of user visible changes
 
+New in 0.6.1; 2002-03-20; Juha Yrjölä:
+* Fixed certificate downloading in pkcs15-init
+* Improved PKCS #11 module, so it works with Mozilla 0.9.9 and
+  is capable of signing and decrypting mails in Netscape
+* Other various small fixes and improvements
+
 New in 0.6.0; 2002-03-13; Juha Yrjölä:
 * Many, many new features -- too many to list here
 * New cards supported: Gemplus GPK family, TCOS 2.0, MioCOS
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 0d12a3bc..274197eb 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ dnl $Id$
 AC_PREREQ(2.52)
 
 AC_INIT(src/libopensc/sc.c)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(opensc, 0.6.0)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(opensc, 0.6.1)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST