diff --git a/bitarray-1.5.3.tar.gz b/bitarray-1.5.3.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index ba75e7d..0000000
--- a/bitarray-1.5.3.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:25498159025bad37ba74b008ace93af1d7e359c36b008a787e387e532c36f358
-size 71299
diff --git a/bitarray-1.6.1.tar.gz b/bitarray-1.6.1.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9af49d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitarray-1.6.1.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:341e308be33a3bed400f56a5e9ffdff066b6640812bf7317d0c1272c9694e1d6
+size 73969
diff --git a/python-bitarray.changes b/python-bitarray.changes
index 870c685..195be3d 100644
--- a/python-bitarray.changes
+++ b/python-bitarray.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov  6 10:48:49 UTC 2020 - Martin Hauke <mardnh@gmx.de>
+
+- Update to 1.6.1
+  * use PyType_Ready for all types: bitarray, bitarrayiterator,
+    decodeiterator, decodetree, searchiterator.
+- Update to 1.6.0
+  * add `decodetree` object, for speeding up consecutive calls
+    to `.decode()` and `.iterdecode()`, in particular when dealing
+    with large prefix codes.
+  * add optional parameter to `.tolist()` which changes the items
+    in the returned list to integers (0 or 1), as opposed to
+    Booleans.
+  * remove deprecated `bitdiff()`, which has been deprecated since
+    version 1.2.0, use `bitarray.util.count_xor()` instead
+  * drop Python 2.6 support.
+  * update license file.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Sep 30 04:35:36 UTC 2020 - Steve Kowalik <steven.kowalik@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/python-bitarray.spec b/python-bitarray.spec
index bebe00e..74df99b 100644
--- a/python-bitarray.spec
+++ b/python-bitarray.spec
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 %{?!python_module:%define python_module() python-%{**} python3-%{**}}
 Name:           python-bitarray
-Version:        1.5.3
+Version:        1.6.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        Efficient Arrays of Booleans
 License:        Python-2.0
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ export CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
 %install
 %python_install
 %python_expand %fdupes %{buildroot}%{$python_sitearch}
+rm examples/growth/.gitignore
 
 %check
 # tests don't run from within the source directory