diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 5e7ceccce79d8..295602497bef9 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "workspaces/arborist": "5.6.0",
+  "workspaces/arborist": "5.6.1",
   "workspaces/libnpmaccess": "6.0.3",
   "workspaces/libnpmdiff": "4.0.4",
   "workspaces/libnpmexec": "4.0.11",
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/CHANGELOG.md b/workspaces/arborist/CHANGELOG.md
index f1132c9e67457..6b69124b7bc82 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [5.6.1](https://github.com/npm/cli/compare/arborist-v5.6.0...arborist-v5.6.1) (2022-08-25)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* create links relative to the target ([1e84102](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/1e841029917817556207c39d25be1ea91e2959e7))
+* inline single-use functions ([ea5e3a3](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/ea5e3a319a7c1b5f7f2a66284227a34b79b2c831))
+* linting ([bd2ae5d](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/bd2ae5d79eb8807bfca6075e98432c545a9ededa))
+* update `index.js` spelling error in comment ([#5329](https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/5329)) ([645c680](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/645c6804c09014b96c2d1eff191b174d12a2b7c0))
+
+
+### Dependencies
+
+* @npmcli/eslint-config@3.1.0 ([8ab12dc](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/8ab12dc32b26db770b868cf694cedab38f4e7460))
+* @npmcli/query@1.2.0 ([26d2e55](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/26d2e551b250972caa550d56127810648a1663a1))
+* bin-links@3.0.3 ([7fbf6f7](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/7fbf6f7825f76906ecdec79ab15595f9e2f7b784))
+* cacache@16.1.3 ([a79ee00](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/a79ee00b530b765ed219e81de77c37057c373adf))
+* hosted-git-info@5.1.0 ([2c4e387](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/2c4e38728f25fd32624df2eb5bbf61c2c40c8ad5))
+* npm-pick-manifest@7.0.2 ([b12ac01](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/b12ac013226b7d86b5b1847d58eabbac2846b153))
+* unique-filename@2.0.1 ([1286f03](https://github.com/npm/cli/commit/1286f03fe73dee9a447b13b662f0c5622ab6ec9e))
+
 ## [5.6.0](https://github.com/npm/cli/compare/arborist-v5.5.0...arborist-v5.6.0) (2022-08-17)
 
 
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/package.json b/workspaces/arborist/package.json
index c6e2bd25cc1d5..81e1b2d93b222 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/package.json
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@npmcli/arborist",
-  "version": "5.6.0",
+  "version": "5.6.1",
   "description": "Manage node_modules trees",
   "dependencies": {
     "@isaacs/string-locale-compare": "^1.1.0",