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diff --git a/xz.changes b/xz.changes
index 6f3671f..4b1ba82 100644
--- a/xz.changes
+++ b/xz.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Mar 10 11:43:13 UTC 2024 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
+
+- update to 5.6.1:
+  * liblzma: Fix start-up crashes with -fprofile-generate
+  * liblzma: Fix false positive invalid write Valgrind report
+  * xz: Change the messages for thread reduction due to memory
+    constraints to only appear under the highest verbosity level
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Mar  5 11:25:55 UTC 2024 - Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/xz.spec b/xz.spec
index 8d79d9c..515548b 100644
--- a/xz.spec
+++ b/xz.spec
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 %bcond_with static
 %endif
 Name:           xz
-Version:        5.6.0
+Version:        5.6.1
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A Program for Compressing Files with the Lempel–Ziv–Markov algorithm
 License:        0BSD AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
@@ -212,7 +212,6 @@ rm -vf %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}/{COPYING,COPYING.GPLv2}
 
 %if %{with static}
 %files static-devel
-%defattr(-, root, root)
 %{_libdir}/liblzma.a
 %endif