diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0de7e06..e928940 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ This project bumps the version number for any changes (including documentation u
 
 ## [Unreleased] - i.e. pushed to main branch but not yet tagged as a release
 
+## [6.1.0] - 2024-11-18
+- Add `authority_terms_duplicate_mode` batch config setting that changes the way authority `shortIdentifier` values are generated, allowing near-duplicate terms to be created in a batch.
+- BUGFIX: Authority terms consisting solely of non-Latin characters are no longer normalized to a blank string for `shortIdentifier` creation, and thus will not be flagged as duplicate terms.
+
 ## [6.0.4] - 2024-10-21
 - Make fallback term search fully case-insensitive, rather than just capitalizing/downcasing first letter of term
 
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 9bec069..0ef02ea 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ GIT
 PATH
   remote: .
   specs:
-    collectionspace-mapper (6.0.4)
+    collectionspace-mapper (6.1.0)
       activesupport (= 6.0.4.7)
       chronic
       collectionspace-client (~> 0.15.0)
diff --git a/lib/collectionspace/mapper/version.rb b/lib/collectionspace/mapper/version.rb
index 760b42a..cccfb7f 100644
--- a/lib/collectionspace/mapper/version.rb
+++ b/lib/collectionspace/mapper/version.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 module CollectionSpace
   module Mapper
-    VERSION = "6.0.4"
+    VERSION = "6.1.0"
   end
 end