diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 998bed64c0..39cc545cc7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## May 2024 Release 1.6.1
 ### Bug fixes
+- Relax Pillow dependency constraint
+  (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/datumaro/pull/1436>)
 - Modify Numpy dependency constraint
   (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/datumaro/pull/1435>)
 
diff --git a/src/datumaro/version.py b/src/datumaro/version.py
index cf1e0487ff..9ab5ad7bff 100644
--- a/src/datumaro/version.py
+++ b/src/datumaro/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.6.1rc1"
+__version__ = "1.6.1rc2"