diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 12a7c7d83b..7bb9d1703e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 61.6.0 - 2019-06-24
+* [#878](https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go/pull/878) Enable request latency telemetry by default
+
 ## 61.5.0 - 2019-06-20
 * [#877](https://github.com/stripe/stripe-go/pull/877) Add `CancellationReason` to `PaymentIntent`
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8559b7b71c..2131750445 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ suffix* in the path like so:
 module github.com/my/package
 
 require (
-    github.com/stripe/stripe-go v61.5.0
+    github.com/stripe/stripe-go v61.6.0
 )
 ```
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a97254a369..9c0be4b799 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-61.5.0
+61.6.0
diff --git a/stripe.go b/stripe.go
index c2fe8e3873..a321538f85 100644
--- a/stripe.go
+++ b/stripe.go
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ func StringSlice(v []string) []*string {
 const apiURL = "https://api.stripe.com"
 
 // clientversion is the binding version
-const clientversion = "61.5.0"
+const clientversion = "61.6.0"
 
 // defaultHTTPTimeout is the default timeout on the http.Client used by the library.
 // This is chosen to be consistent with the other Stripe language libraries and