diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 64e85e73d4c..6e0a37e6d9b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.61.0
+* Enhancement - Support for unified cgroups and the systemd cgroup driver [#3127](https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/pull/3127)
+* Enhancement - Apply minimumCPUShare to both task and container CPU shares [#3156](https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/pull/3156)
+
 ## 1.60.1
 * Enhancement - Add dockerfree init build targets [#3149](https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/pull/3149)
 * Enhancement - Merge ecs-init repo [#3141](https://github.com/aws/amazon-ecs-agent/pull/3141)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index f6c9d766cd4..91951fd8ad7 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.60.1
+1.61.0
diff --git a/agent/version/version.go b/agent/version/version.go
index f56e352490b..865cabca84e 100644
--- a/agent/version/version.go
+++ b/agent/version/version.go
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ package version
 // repository. Only the 'Version' const should change in checked-in source code
 
 // Version is the version of the Agent
-const Version = "1.60.1"
+const Version = "1.61.0"
 
 // GitDirty indicates the cleanliness of the git repo when this agent was built
 const GitDirty = true
 
 // GitShortHash is the short hash of this agent build
-const GitShortHash = "234dfdaa"
+const GitShortHash = "b00e06d9"