diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
index c9cab2eef3..5d057881db 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 <!--==================================================================-->
 
-<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.6.1"><title>Release 1.6.1 (TBA)</title>
+<section xml:id="ssec-relnotes-1.6.1"><title>Release 1.6.1 (October 28, 2013)</title>
 
 <para>This is primarily a bug fix release.  Changes of interest
 are:</para>
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ are:</para>
     on the call stack.</para>
   </listitem>
 
+  <listitem>
+    <para>New built-in function: <function>builtins.typeOf</function>,
+    which returns the type of its argument as a string.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </section>
diff --git a/version b/version
index 7c483e8f4f..2eda823ff5 100644
--- a/version
+++ b/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.7
\ No newline at end of file
+1.6.1
\ No newline at end of file