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-## 6.1.0 (unreleased)
+## 6.1.0 (August 5th 2021)
 This release makes significant changes to SQLite database connection handling, resulting in proper support for high-performance concurrent reads of in-memory databases (the default choice for rqlite). 
 
 - [PR #848](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/pull/848): Enable DBSTATS table and JSON support. Fixes [issue #843](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/issues/843).