diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 1fa934cfecf2..fd845c9d7449 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ This project adheres to `Semantic Versioning`_ starting with version 1.0.
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+[1.6.1] - 2020-01-07
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+- `#4989 <https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/4989>`_: Use an empty domain in case a model is loaded which has no domain
+  (avoids errors when accessing ``agent.doman.<some attribute>``).
+- `#4995 <https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/4995>`_: Replace error message with warning in tokenizers and featurizers if default parameter not set.
+- `#5019 <https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5019>`_: Pin sanic patch version instead of minor version. Fixes sanic ``_run_request_middleware()`` error.
+- `#5032 <https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5032>`_: Fix wrong calculation of additional conversation events when saving the conversation.
+  This led to conversation events not being saved.
+- `#5032 <https://github.com/rasahq/rasa/issues/5032>`_: Fix wrong order of conversation events when pushing events to conversations via
+  ``POST /conversations/<conversation_id>/tracker/events``.
+
+
 [1.6.0] - 2019-12-18
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/changelog/4989.bugfix.rst b/changelog/4989.bugfix.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f27401fab993..000000000000
--- a/changelog/4989.bugfix.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Use an empty domain in case a model is loaded which has no domain
-(avoids errors when accessing ``agent.doman.<some attribute>``).
diff --git a/changelog/4995.bugfix.rst b/changelog/4995.bugfix.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index dcf0d393e104..000000000000
--- a/changelog/4995.bugfix.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Replace error message with warning in tokenizers and featurizers if default parameter not set.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/changelog/5019.bugfix.rst b/changelog/5019.bugfix.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5936d7acdc09..000000000000
--- a/changelog/5019.bugfix.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Pin sanic patch version instead of minor version. Fixes sanic ``_run_request_middleware()`` error.
diff --git a/changelog/5032.bugfix.rst b/changelog/5032.bugfix.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fc7f16268e3..000000000000
--- a/changelog/5032.bugfix.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Fix wrong calculation of additional conversation events when saving the conversation.
-This led to conversation events not being saved.
-
-Fix wrong order of conversation events when pushing events to conversations via
-``POST /conversations/<conversation_id>/tracker/events``.
diff --git a/rasa/version.py b/rasa/version.py
index d5480089359d..0010781600f6 100644
--- a/rasa/version.py
+++ b/rasa/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # this file will automatically be changed,
 # do not add anything but the version number here!
-__version__ = "1.6.0"
+__version__ = "1.6.1"