diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5466f7c..90a273a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Revision history for hermes-json
 
+## 0.6.1.0 -- 2023-08-27
+
+### Changed
+* Bump upper bounds on dependencies
+
+### Fixed
+* Fix bug in `FieldsDecoder` `Alternative` instance that was causing seg faults
+  on missing keys
+
+### Added
+* Add `liftObjectDecoder`
+* Add `objectAsMapExcluding`
+* Add `formatException`
+
 ## 0.6.0.0 -- 2023-08-22
 
 ### Breaking Changes:
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4fc1afb..ac0a12e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ We benchmark the following operations using both `hermes-json` and `aeson` stric
 * Partial decoding of Twitter status objects to highlight the on-demand benefits
 * Decoding entire documents into `Data.Aeson.Value`
 
+Please be aware that GHC does not report C-allocated memory. simdjson does actually
+allocate more memory than appears here, but we still strive to keep our Haskell memory
+footprint as small as possible.
+
 ### Specs
 
 * GHC 9.4.6 w/ -O1
diff --git a/hermes-json.cabal b/hermes-json.cabal
index a7c4065..a19d401 100644
--- a/hermes-json.cabal
+++ b/hermes-json.cabal
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 cabal-version:      3.0
 name:               hermes-json
-version:            0.6.0.0
+version:            0.6.1.0
 category:           Text, Web, JSON, FFI
 synopsis:           Fast JSON decoding via simdjson C++ bindings
 description: