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diff --git a/python-Beaker.changes b/python-Beaker.changes
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--- a/python-Beaker.changes
+++ b/python-Beaker.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Nov 10 10:13:51 UTC 2011 - saschpe@suse.de
+
+- Update to version 1.6.1:
+  * Remove stray print statement.
+  * Include .app for consistency instead of requiring wrap_app.
+- Changes from version 1.6:
+  * Fix bug with cache_key length calculation.
+  * Fix bug with how path was set so that its restored properly and propagated.
+  * Fix bug with CacheMiddleware clobbering enabled setting.
+  * Update option for ``cookie_expires`` so that it can now handle an integer
+    which will be used as the seconds till the cookie expires.
+  * Merge fix for Issue 31, can now handle unicode cache keys.
+  * Add ``key_length`` option for cache regions, and for keyword args passed
+    into the cache system. Cache keys longer than this will be SHA'd.
+  * added runtime beaker.__version__
+  * Add ``webtest_varname`` option to configuration to optionally include
+    the session value in the environ vars when using Beaker with WebTest.
+  * Defer running of pkg_resources to look for external cache modules
+    until requested. #66
+  * memcached backend uses pylibmc.ThreadMappedPool to ensure thread-local
+    usage of pylibmc when that library is in use. (#60)
+  * memcached backend also has ``memcache_module`` string argument, allows
+    direct specification of the name of which memcache backend to use.
+  * Basic container/file-based Session support working in Py3K. (#72)
+  * Further Python 3 fixes
+  * Added an optimization to the FileNamespaceContainer when used with 
+    Session, such that the pickled contents of the file are not 
+    read a second time when session.save() is called.  (#64)
+  * Fixed bug whereby CacheManager.invalidate wouldn't work for a function
+    decorated by cache.cache(). (#61)
+  * cache decorators @cache.cache(), @cache_region() won't include first
+    argument named 'self' or 'cls' as part of the cache key.  This allows
+    reasonably safe usage for methods as well as functions.  (#55)
+  * file backend no longer squashes unpickling errors.   This was inconsistent
+    behavior versus all the other backends.
+  * invalidate_corrupt flag on Session now emits a warning. (#52)
+  * cache.remove_value() removes the value even if it's already marked
+    'expired' (#42)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep  1 13:13:32 UTC 2011 - saschpe@suse.de
 
diff --git a/python-Beaker.spec b/python-Beaker.spec
index bae052b..7f2f5f0 100644
--- a/python-Beaker.spec
+++ b/python-Beaker.spec
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 
 
 Name:           python-Beaker
-Version:        1.5.4
-Release:        1
+Version:        1.6.1
+Release:        0
 Url:            http://beaker.groovie.org
 Summary:        A Session and Caching library with WSGI Middleware
 License:        BSD-3-Clause