diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9e0b831..1d32bfe 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 /vips-8.5.9.tar.gz
-/vips-8.6.0.tar.gz
+/vips-8.6.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 75789a6..01e89f5 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (vips-8.6.0.tar.gz) = 3d199698942625020fd52fda2201997369136f231420a53337a45c31171db41029a9d47e031198bf2e35e696a6ead204b2e7ec8ff58f02b275b1e50a6f146bb1
+SHA512 (vips-8.6.1.tar.gz) = 95ea05b0958ce2eeb386651d6b3442c7240bd97771e09add7563ad48b36c7c24792e38b0fc52bae03c79cd264feead068af8be4e34d33d0407ec351de003c034
diff --git a/vips.spec b/vips.spec
index 9750e03..bac2454 100644
--- a/vips.spec
+++ b/vips.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 %global vips_version_base 8.6
-%global vips_version %{vips_version_base}.0
+%global vips_version %{vips_version_base}.1
 %global vips_soname_major 42
 
 Name:		vips
@@ -112,13 +112,6 @@ HTML and PDF formats.
 %prep
 %setup -q
 
-# make the version string consistent for multiarch
-# should be unneeded after https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/commit/0f69f0808efbe72bab464ee07966d321e9920c7e
-export FAKE_BUILD_DATE=$(date -r %{SOURCE0})
-sed -i "s/\\(VIPS_VERSION_STRING=\\)\$VIPS_VERSION-\`date\`/\\1\"\$VIPS_VERSION-$FAKE_BUILD_DATE\"/g" \
-	configure
-unset FAKE_BUILD_DATE
-
 # Avoid setting RPATH to /usr/lib64 on 64-bit builds
 # The DIE_RPATH_DIE trick breaks the build wrt gobject-introspection
 sed -i 's|sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="|sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec="/%{_lib} %{_libdir} |' configure
@@ -137,9 +130,6 @@ make %{?_smp_mflags}
 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT \( -name '*.la' -o -name '*.a' \) -exec rm -f {} ';'
 
-# https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/834
-mv ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/vips-8.5 ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}/vips-8.6
-
 # delete doc (we will get it later with %%doc)
 rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_datadir}/doc/vips
 
@@ -197,6 +187,9 @@ find ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{python3_sitearch} \
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Jan 21 2018 Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@backtick.net> - 8.6.1-1
+- New release
+
 * Sun Dec 17 2017 Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@backtick.net> - 8.6.0-1
 - New release