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 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 
-project(DaVinci VERSION 60.3
+project(DaVinci VERSION 61.0
         LANGUAGES CXX)
 
 # Enable testing with CTest/CDash
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/v61r0.md b/ReleaseNotes/v61r0.md
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+2022-06-10 DaVinci v61r0
+===
+
+This version uses
+Analysis [v40r4](../../../../Analysis/-/tags/v40r4),
+Rec [v34r3](../../../../Rec/-/tags/v34r3),
+Lbcom [v33r9](../../../../Lbcom/-/tags/v33r9),
+LHCb [v53r9](../../../../LHCb/-/tags/v53r9),
+Detector [v1r2](../../../../Detector/-/tags/v1r2),
+Gaudi [v36r5](../../../../Gaudi/-/tags/v36r5) and
+LCG [101](http://lcginfo.cern.ch/release/101/) with ROOT 6.24.06.
+
+This version is released on `master` branch.
+Built relative to DaVinci [v60r3](/../../tags/v60r3), with the following changes:
+
+### New features ~"new feature"
+
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+- ~Configuration | Adapt code for the lbexec command (incl. removal of run-mc), !673 (@dfazzini) [LHCb#198]
+
+### Fixes ~"bug fix" ~workaround
+
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+
+### Enhancements ~enhancement
+
+- ~Configuration | Update add_filter with checks and append suffix Decision if necessary, !705 (@amathad)
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+- ~Configuration | Initial lbexec support, !706 (@cburr)
+- ~Tuples | Functionality added to access HLT1 decisions using FunTuple and example options files included, !691 (@jedavies)
+
+
+### Code cleanups and changes to tests ~modernisation ~cleanup ~testing
+
+- ~Configuration | DaVinciDependencies.cmake: remove dependency on legacy package TurboStreamProd, !701 (@erodrigu)
+- ~Functors | Updated all functors test, !688 (@pkoppenb)
+- ~Functors | Follow Rec!2683, !687 (@chasse)
+- ~Tuples | Adding test for funtuple array with user-defined length, !694 (@dfazzini)
+- Adding new test for passthrough, !699 (@dfazzini)
+- Upstream project highlights :star:
+- ~Configuration | Adding error message when using 'run-mc', !708 (@dfazzini)
+- ~Configuration ~Tuples | Set correct "TES_ROOT" for "Turbo" process and make process an explicit parameter, !702 (@amathad)
+- ~Tuples | Test of FunTuple with v2 Composites and ChargedBasic, !695 (@amathad)
+- ~Functors ~Tuples | Adding examples for ALLPV{X,Y,Z} and BPV{X,Y,Z} functors, !703 (@pkoppenb)
+
+### Documentation ~Documentation
+
+- ~Tuples | Introduce DaVinci tutorials, !682 (@amathad)
+
+### Other
+