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diff --git a/freeipmi-1.6.1.tar.gz b/freeipmi-1.6.1.tar.gz
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+oid sha256:a2550e08e1f2d681efe770162125ac899022a6acf96256e5b7404eabb90db549
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diff --git a/freeipmi-1.6.1.tar.gz.sig b/freeipmi-1.6.1.tar.gz.sig
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diff --git a/freeipmi.changes b/freeipmi.changes
index 37c5937..358c3a4 100644
--- a/freeipmi.changes
+++ b/freeipmi.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,36 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Feb  3 10:11:46 UTC 2018 - kkaempf@suse.com
+
+- Update to 1.6.1
+  o Add IPv6 hostname support to FreeIPMI, all of FreeIPMI can now take
+    IPv6 addresses as inputs to "host" parameters, options, or inputs.
+  o Support significant portions of IPMI IPv6 configuration in
+    libfreeipmi.
+  o Add --no-session option in ipmi-raw.
+  o Add SDR cache options to ipmi-config.
+  o Legacy -f short option for --flush-cache and -Q short option for
+    quiet-cache.  Backwards compatible for tools that supported it
+    before.
+  o In ipmi-oem, support Gigabyte get-bmc-services and
+    set-bmc-services.
+  o Various performance improvements:
+    - Remove excessive calls to secure_memset to clear memory.
+    - Remove excessive memsets and clears of data.
+    - Remove unnecessary "double input checks".
+    - Remove expensive input checks in libfreeipmi fiid library.
+      Fallout from this may include FIID_ERR_FIELD_NOT_FOUND
+      errors in different fiid functions.
+    - Remove unnecessary input checks in libfreeipmi fiid library.
+    - Add recent 'lookups' of fields in fiid library to internal
+      cache.
+  o Various minor fixes/improvements
+    - Update libfreeipmi core API to use poll() instead of select(), to
+      avoid issues with applications with a high number of threads.  
+
+  - As a side point, while IPv6 networking support has been added, IPv6
+    configuration in ipmi-config & bmc-config is not supported in this
+    release.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Nov 23 13:37:11 UTC 2017 - rbrown@suse.com
 
diff --git a/freeipmi.spec b/freeipmi.spec
index d14e576..58495f0 100644
--- a/freeipmi.spec
+++ b/freeipmi.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package freeipmi
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2017 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2018 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 # Copyright (c) 2003-2008 FreeIPMI Core Team
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 %{!?_initddir: %global _initddir %{_sysconfdir}/init.d}
 
 Name:           freeipmi
-Version:        1.5.7
+Version:        1.6.1
 Release:        %{release}
 Url:            http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/
 Source0:        http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/%{name}-%{srcversion}.tar.gz