diff --git a/libvpx-1.6.0.tar.bz2 b/libvpx-1.6.0.tar.bz2
deleted file mode 100644
index 338126f..0000000
--- a/libvpx-1.6.0.tar.bz2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:d0afbb5eb1ecae68f8d578abace160a97e2e8a230e3028cf4db115d59a695aad
-size 1943026
diff --git a/libvpx-1.6.1.tar.bz2 b/libvpx-1.6.1.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e46fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libvpx-1.6.1.tar.bz2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:1c2c0c2a97fba9474943be34ee39337dee756780fc12870ba1dc68372586a819
+size 1959534
diff --git a/libvpx.changes b/libvpx.changes
index 0491263..7691704 100644
--- a/libvpx.changes
+++ b/libvpx.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Mar  3 09:25:31 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Version update to 1.6.1:
+  * Improvements on the VP9 speed of encoding and decoding
+  * Various fixes found by fuzzing
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jan  1 13:53:12 UTC 2017 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/libvpx.spec b/libvpx.spec
index 80c3839..bfccdca 100644
--- a/libvpx.spec
+++ b/libvpx.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 %define         sover 4
 Name:           libvpx
-Version:        1.6.0
+Version:        1.6.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        VP8/VP9 codec library
 License:        BSD-3-Clause and GPL-2.0+
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ Source1000:     baselibs.conf
 Patch1:         libvpx-define-config_pic.patch
 Patch2:         libvpx-configure-add-s390.patch
 Patch4:         libvpx-armv7-use-hard-float.patch
-# Needed to be able to create pkgconfig() provides.
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+# Needed to be able to create pkgconfig() provides.
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  yasm
 # add curl and do not copy it in to get an updated test-data.sha1 file