diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7ec3610d..16ad4982 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ For more information on different installation options, refer to the
 [documentation](https://gagneurlab-drop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html)
 
 ## What's new
+Version 1.6.1 fixes issues due to the new way to import functions in txdbmaker and GenomeInfoDb with the new BioC release 3.22 and above.
 
 Version 1.6.0 contains a fix to a bug in the counting of the aberrant expression module ⚠️ . In addition, it contains a fix to the assignment of variants to genes in the MAE module. Please do not use v1.5.0.
 
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 70efa72c..d73186a2 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 author = 'Michaela Müller'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release_ = '1.6.0'
+release_ = '1.6.1'
 
 
 
diff --git a/drop/cli.py b/drop/cli.py
index 6e3d4219..3d61406b 100644
--- a/drop/cli.py
+++ b/drop/cli.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 @click.group(invoke_without_command=True)
 @click_log.simple_verbosity_option(logger)
-@click.version_option("1.6.0", prog_name='drop')
+@click.version_option('1.6.1',prog_name='drop')
 
 def main():
     ctx = click.get_current_context()
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index e2046bfc..8097d37c 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [bumpversion]
 
-current_version = 1.6.0
+current_version = 1.6.1
 commit = True
 
 [bumpversion:file:setup.py]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b4217231..ebc37967 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     'pandas>=3.0',
 ]
 
-extra_files = []
+extra_files: list[str] = []
 for (path, directories, filenames) in os.walk('drop/'):
     directories[:] = [d for d in directories if not d.startswith('.')] 
     filenames[:] = [f for f in filenames if not f.startswith('.') and not f.endswith('.Rproj')]
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="drop",
-    version="1.6.0",
+    version="1.6.1",
     author="Vicente A. Yépez, Michaela Müller, Nicholas H. Smith, Ata Jadid Ahari, Daniela Klaproth-Andrade, Luise Schuller, Ines Scheller, Christian Mertes <mertes@in.tum.de>, Julien Gagneur <gagneur@in.tum.de>",
     author_email="yepez@in.tum.de",
     description="Detection of RNA Outlier Pipeline",