Release v1.6.1

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 Status of the `main` branch. Changes prior to the next official version change will appear here.
 
+# v1.6.1 (2026-07-21)
+
 * General:
   - Fix: `FileUtils.read_file`'s `charset_normalizer` fallback (used when a file cannot be decoded with
     the project's configured `encoding`) decoded the raw bytes directly and therefore skipped the

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ requires = ["hatchling"]
 
 [project]
 name = "serena-agent"
-version = "1.6.1.dev0"
+version = "1.6.1"
 description = "A powerful MCP toolkit for coding, providing semantic retrieval and editing capabilities - the IDE for your agent"
 authors = [{ name = "Oraios AI", email = "info@oraios-ai.de" }]
 readme = "README.md"

src/serena/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "1.6.1.dev0"
+__version__ = "1.6.1"
 
 import logging
 

uv.lock

@@ -2810,7 +2810,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serena-agent"
-version = "1.6.1.dev0"
+version = "1.6.1"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "anthropic" },