diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5bd3344..7168095 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+## [1.6.1] - 2025-12-14
+
+* * Added automatic retry handling for GitHub 403 / rate-limit errors during Nix flake installs (Fibonacci backoff with jitter).
+
+
 ## [1.6.0] - 2025-12-14
 
 * *** Changed ***
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index e113a77..16f099a 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
         rec {
           pkgmgr = pyPkgs.buildPythonApplication {
             pname   = "package-manager";
-            version = "1.6.0";
+            version = "1.6.1";
 
             # Use the git repo as source
             src = ./.;
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ae4afa2..a340a21 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "package-manager"
-version = "1.6.0"
+version = "1.6.1"
 description = "Kevin's package-manager tool (pkgmgr)"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9"