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diff --git a/python-netCDF4.changes b/python-netCDF4.changes
index b7c8839..e9a9c03 100644
--- a/python-netCDF4.changes
+++ b/python-netCDF4.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 16 19:56:27 UTC 2022 - Arun Persaud <arun@gmx.de>
+
+- update to version 1.6.1:
+ * add Dataset methods has_<name>_filter (where <name>=zstd,blosc,bzip2,szip)
+   to check for availability of extra compression filters.
+ * release GIL for all C-lib calls (issue #1180).
+ * Add support for nc_set_alignment and nc_get_alignment to control alignment
+   of data within HDF5 files.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jul 11 03:01:26 UTC 2022 - Arun Persaud <arun@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/python-netCDF4.spec b/python-netCDF4.spec
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 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-netCDF4
-Version:        1.6.0
+Version:        1.6.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Python interface to netCDF 3 and 4
 License:        HPND AND MIT