diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 901ea751..feb82de2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Version 6.1.0 Released October 2021
+===================================
+- Change default BLR blocksize, and in the BLR preconditioner use
+  right-looking algorithm as the default. This has higher peak
+  memory usage, but is much faster and more robust.
+- Fixes in printing of compression statistics.
+- Always build the test when doing 'make', you no longer have to
+  run 'make tests'.
+- Setup CI at github and gitlab, remove Travis testing.
+
+
 Version 6.0.0 Released September 2021
 =====================================
 - Block Low-Rank compression is now supported in the sparse
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 242b7d07..40bf9dba 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.11)
-project(STRUMPACK VERSION 6.0.0 LANGUAGES CXX C Fortran)
+project(STRUMPACK VERSION 6.1.0 LANGUAGES CXX C Fortran)
 
 
 option(STRUMPACK_USE_MPI     "Build with MPI support" ON)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 52a40fab..59a90775 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 ## Documentation & Installation instructions
    [http://portal.nersc.gov/project/sparse/strumpack/master/](http://portal.nersc.gov/project/sparse/strumpack/master/)
 
-   [http://portal.nersc.gov/project/sparse/strumpack/v6.0.0/](http://portal.nersc.gov/project/sparse/strumpack/v6.0.0/)
+   [http://portal.nersc.gov/project/sparse/strumpack/v6.1.0/](http://portal.nersc.gov/project/sparse/strumpack/v6.1.0/)
 
 
 ## Website