diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 3bb24a1d7..c22a5c7f0 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1.56.1 (July 17, 2022)
+
+Fixes a critical error with the previous release
+
+* Run database migrations as the last step of bin/suspenders
+* Fix bundler error on bin/suspenders script
+
 1.56.0 (July 4, 2022)
 
 Maintenance release
diff --git a/lib/suspenders/version.rb b/lib/suspenders/version.rb
index 290263a41..bb46cd07c 100644
--- a/lib/suspenders/version.rb
+++ b/lib/suspenders/version.rb
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ module Suspenders
     .read("#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../../.ruby-version")
     .strip
     .freeze
-  VERSION = "1.56.0".freeze
+  VERSION = "1.56.1".freeze
 end