From 81a4d90ecd0efb67362c161bc5e069a08f8dc26f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pradeep Sekar <pradeep.sekar@hashicorp.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 20:56:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] chore: update changelog and version

---
 CHANGELOG.md    | 2 +-
 version/VERSION | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8ca64e0c..043b0488 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Canonical reference for changes, improvements, and bugfixes for the Boundary Ter
 
 ## Next
 
-## 1.5.2 (Jul 8th, 2026)
+## 1.6.1 (Jul 8th, 2026)
 
 ### New and Improved
 
diff --git a/version/VERSION b/version/VERSION
index 4cda8f19..9c6d6293 100644
--- a/version/VERSION
+++ b/version/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.5.2
+1.6.1