diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index c27c8c885ce..d33154df47d 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.6.0
+current_version = 1.6.1
 files = setup.py src/scancode/__init__.py
 commit = False
 tag = False
diff --git a/etc/release/release.sh b/etc/release/release.sh
index 524b0ca3a07..0c1af926222 100755
--- a/etc/release/release.sh
+++ b/etc/release/release.sh
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ echo "  RELEASE: Building release archives..."
 
 # build a zip and tar.bz2
 bin/python setup.py --quiet sdist --formats=bztar,zip
+bin/python setup.py --quiet bdist_wheel
 
 
 # Restoring initial dev setup and config...
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 770810ffca9..daa4538947e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def read(*names, **kwargs):
 
 setup(
     name='scancode-toolkit',
-    version='1.6.0',
+    version='1.6.1',
     license='Apache-2.0 with ScanCode acknowledgment and CC0-1.0 and others',
     description='ScanCode is a tool to scan code for license, copyright and other interesting facts.',
     long_description=long_description,
@@ -91,9 +91,6 @@ def read(*names, **kwargs):
         'MarkupSafe >= 0.23',
         'colorama',
 
-        # AboutCode
-        'about-code-tool >= 0.9.0',
-
         # packagedcode
         'requests >= 2.7.0, < 3.0.0',
     ],
diff --git a/src/scancode/__init__.py b/src/scancode/__init__.py
index 8f33b658343..8d2425d86bd 100644
--- a/src/scancode/__init__.py
+++ b/src/scancode/__init__.py
@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
 #  ScanCode is a free software code scanning tool from nexB Inc. and others.
 #  Visit https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/ for support and download.
 
-__version__ = '1.6.0'
+__version__ = '1.6.1'