diff --git a/darktable-1.6.0-nopatents.tar.xz b/darktable-1.6.0-nopatents.tar.xz
deleted file mode 100644
index 1acae49..0000000
--- a/darktable-1.6.0-nopatents.tar.xz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:64782fe5b2a44428b4aef38efd45ab4e50070d4053e39ef238e7abe89db2e185
-size 3076300
diff --git a/darktable-1.6.1-nopatents.tar.xz b/darktable-1.6.1-nopatents.tar.xz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f7ee36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/darktable-1.6.1-nopatents.tar.xz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:4a29102e50999bd354328a28d9ebc2eca3c2d745cd4fa5bc6768c57c057703a5
+size 3082912
diff --git a/darktable.changes b/darktable.changes
index 68a809a..68c44e5 100644
--- a/darktable.changes
+++ b/darktable.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Jan 10 13:38:45 UTC 2015 - toganm@opensuse.org
+
+- Update to version 1.6.1
+  * this is a point release which fixes a couple of minor issues in
+    the recent feature release 1.6.0 (such as a crash with images
+    greater than 134 megapixels). 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Dec  8 09:26:05 UTC 2014 - toganm@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/darktable.spec b/darktable.spec
index 6e74c9f..416fbd5 100644
--- a/darktable.spec
+++ b/darktable.spec
@@ -17,14 +17,14 @@
 
 
 Name:           darktable
-Version:        1.6.0
+Version:        1.6.1
 Release:        0
 Url:            http://darktable.sourceforge.net
 # darktable contains patented code that we cannot ship.  Therefore we use
 # this script to remove the patented code before shipping it.
 # Download the upstream tarball and invoke this script while in the
 # tarball's directory:
-# Originial Source:     https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.0/darktable-1.6.0.tar.xz
+# Originial Source:     https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-%{version}/darktable-%{version}tar.xz
 # ./generate-tarball.sh 
 Source0:        %name-%version-nopatents.tar.xz
 Source1:        https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/download/release-1.6.0/darktable-usermanual.pdf