diff --git a/.changes/2.6.1.json b/.changes/2.6.1.json
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+[
+  {
+    "category": "``connect``",
+    "description": "This release introduces an API for changing the current agent status of a user in Connect.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``network-firewall``",
+    "description": "AWS Network Firewall adds support for stateful threat signature AWS managed rule groups.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``chime-sdk-media-pipelines``",
+    "description": "For Amazon Chime SDK meetings, the Amazon Chime Media Pipelines SDK allows builders to capture audio, video, and content share streams. You can also capture meeting events, live transcripts, and data messages. The pipelines save the artifacts to an Amazon S3 bucket that you designate.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``ec2``",
+    "description": "This release adds support to query the public key and creation date of EC2 Key Pairs. Additionally, the format (pem or ppk) of a key pair can be specified when creating a new key pair.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``iotwireless``",
+    "description": "Add list support for event configurations, allow to get and update event configurations by resource type, support LoRaWAN events; Make NetworkAnalyzerConfiguration as a resource, add List, Create, Delete API support; Add FCntStart attribute support for ABP WirelessDevice.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``braket``",
+    "description": "This release enables Braket Hybrid Jobs with Embedded Simulators to have multiple instances.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``rekognition``",
+    "description": "This release adds support to configure stream-processor resources for label detections on streaming-videos. UpateStreamProcessor API is also launched with this release, which could be used to update an existing stream-processor.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``auditmanager``",
+    "description": "This release adds documentation updates for Audit Manager. We provided examples of how to use the Custom_ prefix for the keywordValue attribute. We also provided more details about the DeleteAssessmentReport operation.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``sagemaker``",
+    "description": "Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for custom validation dataset and validation ratio through the CreateAutoMLJob and DescribeAutoMLJob APIs.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``guardduty``",
+    "description": "Documentation update for API description.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``lookoutequipment``",
+    "description": "This release adds the following new features: 1) Introduces an option for automatic schema creation 2) Now allows for Ingestion of data containing most common errors and allows automatic data cleaning 3) Introduces new API ListSensorStatistics that gives further information about the ingested data",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``cloudtrail``",
+    "description": "Increases the retention period maximum to 2557 days. Deprecates unused fields of the ListEventDataStores API response. Updates documentation.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``amplify``",
+    "description": "Documentation only update to support the Amplify GitHub App feature launch",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }
+]
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-amplify-74381.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-amplify-74381.json
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index 30ee59015770..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-amplify-74381.json
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-{
-  "category": "``amplify``",
-  "description": "Documentation only update to support the Amplify GitHub App feature launch",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-auditmanager-23135.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-auditmanager-23135.json
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index cff42907d1f9..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-auditmanager-23135.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``auditmanager``",
-  "description": "This release adds documentation updates for Audit Manager. We provided examples of how to use the Custom_ prefix for the keywordValue attribute. We also provided more details about the DeleteAssessmentReport operation.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-braket-2030.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-braket-2030.json
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index 261825f7b3f4..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-braket-2030.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``braket``",
-  "description": "This release enables Braket Hybrid Jobs with Embedded Simulators to have multiple instances.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-chimesdkmediapipelines-48678.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-chimesdkmediapipelines-48678.json
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index 7e6f7da6bd17..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-chimesdkmediapipelines-48678.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``chime-sdk-media-pipelines``",
-  "description": "For Amazon Chime SDK meetings, the Amazon Chime Media Pipelines SDK allows builders to capture audio, video, and content share streams. You can also capture meeting events, live transcripts, and data messages. The pipelines save the artifacts to an Amazon S3 bucket that you designate.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-cloudtrail-90931.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-cloudtrail-90931.json
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index 8daa3588ded1..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-cloudtrail-90931.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``cloudtrail``",
-  "description": "Increases the retention period maximum to 2557 days. Deprecates unused fields of the ListEventDataStores API response. Updates documentation.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-connect-32419.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-connect-32419.json
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index 3ff5cde004f6..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-connect-32419.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``connect``",
-  "description": "This release introduces an API for changing the current agent status of a user in Connect.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-ec2-48477.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-ec2-48477.json
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index ae254b1598dd..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-ec2-48477.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``ec2``",
-  "description": "This release adds support to query the public key and creation date of EC2 Key Pairs. Additionally, the format (pem or ppk) of a key pair can be specified when creating a new key pair.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-guardduty-68743.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-guardduty-68743.json
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index ee53475db987..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-guardduty-68743.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``guardduty``",
-  "description": "Documentation update for API description.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-iotwireless-44947.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-iotwireless-44947.json
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index 5c40bfd2f474..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-iotwireless-44947.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``iotwireless``",
-  "description": "Add list support for event configurations, allow to get and update event configurations by resource type, support LoRaWAN events; Make NetworkAnalyzerConfiguration as a resource, add List, Create, Delete API support; Add FCntStart attribute support for ABP WirelessDevice.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-lookoutequipment-95658.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-lookoutequipment-95658.json
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index 135080f041b8..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-lookoutequipment-95658.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``lookoutequipment``",
-  "description": "This release adds the following new features: 1) Introduces an option for automatic schema creation 2) Now allows for Ingestion of data containing most common errors and allows automatic data cleaning 3) Introduces new API ListSensorStatistics that gives further information about the ingested data",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-networkfirewall-28387.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-networkfirewall-28387.json
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index 2b1921d4d4b6..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-networkfirewall-28387.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``network-firewall``",
-  "description": "AWS Network Firewall adds support for stateful threat signature AWS managed rule groups.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-rekognition-38062.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-rekognition-38062.json
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index 310e361c3061..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-rekognition-38062.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``rekognition``",
-  "description": "This release adds support to configure stream-processor resources for label detections on streaming-videos. UpateStreamProcessor API is also launched with this release, which could be used to update an existing stream-processor.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/.changes/next-release/apichange-sagemaker-25857.json b/.changes/next-release/apichange-sagemaker-25857.json
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index 2f8c7c446311..000000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/apichange-sagemaker-25857.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "category": "``sagemaker``",
-  "description": "Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for custom validation dataset and validation ratio through the CreateAutoMLJob and DescribeAutoMLJob APIs.",
-  "type": "api-change"
-}
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 3e12a80b04a0..6cad13493475 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,24 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+2.6.1
+=====
+
+* api-change:``connect``: This release introduces an API for changing the current agent status of a user in Connect.
+* api-change:``network-firewall``: AWS Network Firewall adds support for stateful threat signature AWS managed rule groups.
+* api-change:``chime-sdk-media-pipelines``: For Amazon Chime SDK meetings, the Amazon Chime Media Pipelines SDK allows builders to capture audio, video, and content share streams. You can also capture meeting events, live transcripts, and data messages. The pipelines save the artifacts to an Amazon S3 bucket that you designate.
+* api-change:``ec2``: This release adds support to query the public key and creation date of EC2 Key Pairs. Additionally, the format (pem or ppk) of a key pair can be specified when creating a new key pair.
+* api-change:``iotwireless``: Add list support for event configurations, allow to get and update event configurations by resource type, support LoRaWAN events; Make NetworkAnalyzerConfiguration as a resource, add List, Create, Delete API support; Add FCntStart attribute support for ABP WirelessDevice.
+* api-change:``braket``: This release enables Braket Hybrid Jobs with Embedded Simulators to have multiple instances.
+* api-change:``rekognition``: This release adds support to configure stream-processor resources for label detections on streaming-videos. UpateStreamProcessor API is also launched with this release, which could be used to update an existing stream-processor.
+* api-change:``auditmanager``: This release adds documentation updates for Audit Manager. We provided examples of how to use the Custom_ prefix for the keywordValue attribute. We also provided more details about the DeleteAssessmentReport operation.
+* api-change:``sagemaker``: Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for custom validation dataset and validation ratio through the CreateAutoMLJob and DescribeAutoMLJob APIs.
+* api-change:``guardduty``: Documentation update for API description.
+* api-change:``lookoutequipment``: This release adds the following new features: 1) Introduces an option for automatic schema creation 2) Now allows for Ingestion of data containing most common errors and allows automatic data cleaning 3) Introduces new API ListSensorStatistics that gives further information about the ingested data
+* api-change:``cloudtrail``: Increases the retention period maximum to 2557 days. Deprecates unused fields of the ListEventDataStores API response. Updates documentation.
+* api-change:``amplify``: Documentation only update to support the Amplify GitHub App feature launch
+
+
 2.6.0
 =====
 
diff --git a/awscli/__init__.py b/awscli/__init__.py
index 57543189b2d7..ca81bedd6a4a 100644
--- a/awscli/__init__.py
+++ b/awscli/__init__.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 import importlib.abc
 import sys
 
-__version__ = '2.6.0'
+__version__ = '2.6.1'
 
 #
 # Get our data path to be added to botocore's search path
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 582197c4e3d9..fbd2254d581a 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '2.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.6.0'
+release = '2.6.1'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.