diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 35588e4c0..29046e2a1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,39 @@
 .. _changelog:
 
+0.61.1
+------
+
+Renku 0.61.1 introduces a few bug fixes for the previous release.
+
+
+User-Facing Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**🐞 Bug Fixes**
+
+- **Sessions**: Correctly launch sessions that request dedicated resources classes
+
+Internal Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**Bug Fixes**
+
+- **Amalthea**: Add resource requests for the authentication proxy containers
+- **Amalthea**: Add support for setting priority classes for sessions
+- **Data services**: Use the working directory to mount cloud storage if the mount path is relative
+- **Data services**: Use HTTPS in the redirect URL for the authentication proxy
+- **Data services**: Use GPU resource limits when GPUs are requested
+- **Helm chart**: Do not set the default storage class to empty string if it is not set in the values file
+- **Helm chart**: Restart the data services and notebooks pods when the mounted secret changes
+
+Individual components
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- `amalthea 0.14.5 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/amalthea/releases/tag/0.14.5>`_
+- `amalthea 0.14.6 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/amalthea/releases/tag/0.14.6>`_
+- `renku-data-services 0.27.1 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-data-services/releases/tag/v0.27.1>`_
+
+
 0.61.0
 ------
 
diff --git a/helm-chart/renku/requirements.yaml b/helm-chart/renku/requirements.yaml
index 0de1c1460..061692e12 100644
--- a/helm-chart/renku/requirements.yaml
+++ b/helm-chart/renku/requirements.yaml
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ dependencies:
     alias: jena
   - name: amalthea
     repository: "https://swissdatasciencecenter.github.io/helm-charts/"
-    version: "0.14.3"
+    version: "0.14.6"
   - name: amalthea-sessions
     repository: "https://swissdatasciencecenter.github.io/helm-charts/"
-    version: "0.14.4"
+    version: "0.14.6"
   - name: dlf-chart
     repository: "https://swissdatasciencecenter.github.io/datashim/"
     version: "0.3.9-renku-2"
diff --git a/helm-chart/renku/templates/data-service/deployment.yaml b/helm-chart/renku/templates/data-service/deployment.yaml
index e657cd9b4..ec07eb281 100644
--- a/helm-chart/renku/templates/data-service/deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm-chart/renku/templates/data-service/deployment.yaml
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@ spec:
         app: renku-data-service
         release: {{ .Release.Name }}
         {{ .Values.global.redis.clientLabel | toYaml | nindent 8 }}
-      {{- with .Values.dataService.podAnnotations }}
       annotations:
+        # NOTE: Without this the pod will not restart when the secret values change.
+        checksum/config: {{ include (print $.Template.BasePath "/notebooks/env-secret.yaml") . | sha256sum }}
+      {{- with .Values.dataService.podAnnotations }}
         {{- toYaml . | nindent 8 }}
       {{- end }}
     spec:
diff --git a/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/deployment.yaml b/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/deployment.yaml
index 978d466f1..be4b9ed1f 100644
--- a/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/deployment.yaml
+++ b/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/deployment.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ spec:
       release: {{ .Release.Name }}
   template:
     metadata:
+      annotations:
+        # NOTE: Without this the pod will not restart when the secret values change.
+        checksum/config: {{ include (print $.Template.BasePath "/notebooks/env-secret.yaml") . | sha256sum }}
       labels:
         app: {{ template "renku.notebooks.name" . }}-k8s-watcher
         chart: {{ template "renku.chart" . }}
diff --git a/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/env-secret.yaml b/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/env-secret.yaml
index c229aab65..4c765cc9d 100644
--- a/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/env-secret.yaml
+++ b/helm-chart/renku/templates/notebooks/env-secret.yaml
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ metadata:
 type: Opaque
 stringData:
   NB_SESSIONS__STORAGE__PVS_ENABLED: {{ .Values.notebooks.userSessionPersistentVolumes.enabled | quote }}
-  {{ if .Values.notebooks.userSessionPersistentVolumes.enabled }}
+  {{- if and .Values.notebooks.userSessionPersistentVolumes.enabled .Values.notebooks.userSessionPersistentVolumes.storageClass }}
   NB_SESSIONS__STORAGE__PVS_STORAGE_CLASS: {{ .Values.notebooks.userSessionPersistentVolumes.storageClass | quote}}
-  {{ end }}
+  {{- end }}
   NB_SESSIONS__STORAGE__USE_EMPTY_DIR_SIZE_LIMIT: {{ .Values.notebooks.userSessionPersistentVolumes.useEmptyDirSizeLimit | quote }}
   NB_SESSIONS__DEFAULT_IMAGE: "{{ .Values.notebooks.defaultSessionImage }}"
   NB_SERVER_OPTIONS__DEFAULTS_PATH: /etc/renku-notebooks/server_options/server_defaults.json
diff --git a/helm-chart/renku/values.yaml b/helm-chart/renku/values.yaml
index 3d3a1828e..4790c3d35 100644
--- a/helm-chart/renku/values.yaml
+++ b/helm-chart/renku/values.yaml
@@ -1595,14 +1595,14 @@ dataService:
     create: true
   image:
     repository: renku/renku-data-service
-    tag: "0.27.0"
+    tag: "0.27.1"
     pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   backgroundJobs:
     events:
       resources: {}
     image:
       repository: renku/data-service-background-jobs
-      tag: "0.27.0"
+      tag: "0.27.1"
       pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
     total:
       resources: {}
@@ -1655,7 +1655,7 @@ authz:
 secretsStorage:
   image:
     repository: renku/secrets-storage
-    tag: "0.27.0"
+    tag: "0.27.1"
     pullPolicy: IfNotPresent
   service:
     type: ClusterIP