diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index eee11220..d304039c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 cmake_policy(SET CMP0091 NEW) # enable new "MSVC runtime library selection" (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/variable/CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY.html)
 
 project(libCZI 
-      VERSION 0.60.1
+      VERSION 0.61.0
       HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/ZEISS/libczi"
       DESCRIPTION "libCZI is an Open Source Cross-Platform C++ library to read and write CZI")
 
diff --git a/Src/libCZI/Doc/version-history.markdown b/Src/libCZI/Doc/version-history.markdown
index 1e6aab12..bee90830 100644
--- a/Src/libCZI/Doc/version-history.markdown
+++ b/Src/libCZI/Doc/version-history.markdown
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ version history                 {#version_history}
  0.58.4             | [99](https://github.com/ZEISS/libczi/pull/99)        | fix a rare issue with curl_http_inputstream which would fail to read CZIs with an attachment-directory containing zero entries
  0.59.0             | [99](https://github.com/ZEISS/libczi/pull/103)       | add a check for physical size for dimensions other than X,Y,M, they must not be >1, active for strict parsing.
  0.60.0             | [106](https://github.com/ZEISS/libczi/pull/106)      | with metadata-builder, by default copy the attributes "Id" and "Name" from the channel-node; allow to control the behavior fine-grained
- 0.60.1             | [106](https://github.com/ZEISS/libczi/pull/109)      | fix behaviour of IXmlNodeRead::GetChildNodeReadonly (for non-existing nodes)
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+ 0.61.0             | [106](https://github.com/ZEISS/libczi/pull/109)      | fix behaviour of `IXmlNodeRead::GetChildNodeReadonly` (for non-existing nodes), new method `ICziWriter::GetStatistics` added
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