diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 688407f4649..c878960eeea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [6.1.1] - 2025-05-20
+
+### Fixed
+- Prevent swallowing of `ValueError` when creating a figure with subplots [[#3888](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/3888)]
+- Fix issue causing `fig.write_image()` to not generate an image [[#5193](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5193)]
+
 ## [6.1.0] - 2025-05-15
 
 ### Updated
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6ffbbbee865..8d8e813caab 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 license = {file="LICENSE.txt"}
-version = "6.1.0"
+version = "6.1.1"
 dependencies = [
     "narwhals>=1.15.1",
     "packaging"