diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6a9543021..d608f57f7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# tectonic 0.6.1 (2021-06-15)
+
+- No code changes; the attempt to publish 0.6.0 to Crates.io failed spuriously,
+  so we're retriggering the release automation.
+
+
 # tectonic 0.6.0 (2021-06-15)
 
 This release adds some helpful new utilities and internal cleanups, which
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 066825e32..e0601e769 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2102,7 +2102,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "tectonic"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.6.1"
 dependencies = [
  "atty",
  "byte-unit",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 875e5f6de..433df7317 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 [package]
 name = "tectonic"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.6.1"
 authors = ["Peter Williams <peter@newton.cx>"]
 description = """
 A modernized, complete, embeddable TeX/LaTeX engine. Tectonic is forked from the XeTeX