diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f3fefad1..bb58d6b7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
+==========================
+
+Bug-fix release.
+----------------
+
+Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
+  
+  It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
+  people running gcc 4.4.5.
+
 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
 =======================
 New, general features
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index aa10a2dc..37a228c4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ notmuch (0.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
     Thanks to Jason Woofenden for the report.
   * Force notmuch to depend on the same version of libnotmuch. Thanks to
     Uwe Kleine-König for the patch.
+  * Export typeinfo for Xapian exceptions from libnotmuch. This fixes
+    certain mysterious uncaught exception problems.
 
- -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:34:02 -0300
+ -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:20:42 -0300
 
 notmuch (0.6) unstable; urgency=low