diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d51e3d196..8e4a5140b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,13 +4,25 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
+
+---
+
+## [1.6.1] - 2017-06-17
+### Changed
+- Loosening visibility on `Traversables` methods to `public`
+
+## [1.6.0] - 2017-06-04
 ### Added
-- `Applicative` arrives; all functors gain applicative properties
 - `Either#invert` is pulled up into `CoProduct2` and additionally specialized for `Choice2`
 - `CoProductN#embed`
 - `not`, used for negating predicate functions
 - `empty`, used to test if an Iterable is empty
 - `groupBy`, for folding an Iterable into a Map given a key function
+- `Applicative` arrives; all functors gain applicative properties
+- `Traversable` arrives; `SingletonHList`, `Tuple*`, `Choice*`, `Either`, `Identity`, and `Const` gain traversable properties
+- `TraversableOptional` and `TraversableIterable` for adapting `Optional` and `Iterable`, respectively, to `Traversable`
+- `sequence` for wrapping a traversable in an applicative during traversal 
+- `Compose`, an applicative functor that represents type-level functor composition
 
 ### Changed
 - `Functor`, `Bifunctor`, and `Profunctor` (as well as all instances) get a unification parameter
@@ -19,6 +31,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 - `partition` now only requires iterables of `CoProudct2`
 - `CoProductN`s receive a unification parameter, which trickles down to `Either` and `Choice`s
 - `Concat` now represents a monoid for `Iterable`; previous `Concat` semigroup and monoid renamed to more appropriate `AddAll`
+- `Lens` is now an instance of `Profunctor`
 
 ## [1.5.6] - 2017-02-11
 ### Added
@@ -115,7 +128,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 - `Monadic/Dyadic/TriadicFunction`, `Predicate`, `Tuple2`, `Tuple3`
 - `Functor`, `BiFunctor`, `ProFunctor` 
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/palatable/lambda/compare/lambda-1.5.6...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/palatable/lambda/compare/lambda-1.6.1...HEAD
+[1.6.0]: https://github.com/palatable/lambda/compare/lambda-1.6.0...lambda-1.6.1
+[1.6.0]: https://github.com/palatable/lambda/compare/lambda-1.5.6...lambda-1.6.0
 [1.5.6]: https://github.com/palatable/lambda/compare/lambda-1.5.5...lambda-1.5.6
 [1.5.5]: https://github.com/palatable/lambda/compare/lambda-1.5.4...lambda-1.5.5
 [1.5.4]: https://github.com/palatable/lambda/compare/lambda-1.5.3...lambda-1.5.4
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 24aebdc36..d3c2ed049 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     </parent>
 
     <artifactId>lambda</artifactId>
-    <version>1.6.0</version>
+    <version>1.6.1</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
     <name>Lambda</name>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/jnape/palatable/lambda/traversable/Traversables.java b/src/main/java/com/jnape/palatable/lambda/traversable/Traversables.java
index 54a6b0903..4fc1443c4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/jnape/palatable/lambda/traversable/Traversables.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/jnape/palatable/lambda/traversable/Traversables.java
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ private Traversables() {
      * @param <A> the Iterable element type
      * @return a Traversable wrapper around as
      */
-    static <A> TraversableIterable<A> traversable(Iterable<? extends A> as) {
+    public static <A> TraversableIterable<A> traversable(Iterable<? extends A> as) {
         return TraversableIterable.wrap(as);
     }
 
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static <A> TraversableIterable<A> traversable(Iterable<? extends A> as) {
      * @param <A> the Optional type
      * @return a Traversable wrapper around opt
      */
-    static <A> TraversableOptional<A> traversable(Optional<A> opt) {
+    public static <A> TraversableOptional<A> traversable(Optional<A> opt) {
         return TraversableOptional.wrap(opt);
     }
 }