diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index abc10afc2..e9c5ea4c2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-2021-12-20 RELEASE 6.1.0
+2021-12-20 RELEASE 6.1.1
 ========================
 Better testing and tidier code.
 
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ PRs merged since last release:
 * Export DCMITYPE
   [PR #1433](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/pull/1433)
 
+2021-12-20 RELEASE 6.1.0
+========================
+A slightly messed-up release of what is now 6.1.1. Do not use!
+
 2021-10-10 RELEASE 6.0.2
 ========================
 Minor release to add OWL.rational & OWL.real which are needed to allow the OWL-RL package to use only rdflib namespaces, not it's own versions.
diff --git a/rdflib/__init__.py b/rdflib/__init__.py
index 8532c1b20..4aa4f20aa 100644
--- a/rdflib/__init__.py
+++ b/rdflib/__init__.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
 
 # The format of the __version__ line is matched by a regex in setup.py
-__version__ = "6.1.0"
+__version__ = "6.1.1"
 __date__ = "2021-12-20"
 
 __all__ = [