diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index 0443d6e85..aba9dc7b2 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "January 2022" "meson 0.61.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "January 2022" "meson 0.61.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index 3337b3c67..2c5704481 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ if T.TYPE_CHECKING:
 #
 # Pip requires that RCs are named like this: '0.1.0.rc1'
 # But the corresponding Git tag needs to be '0.1.0rc1'
-version = '0.61.0'
+version = '0.61.1'
 
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs', 'vs2010', 'vs2012', 'vs2013', 'vs2015', 'vs2017', 'vs2019', 'vs2022', 'xcode']