From 21558da5197197d48393f5c071f108c14b615778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Volkov <antonwolfy@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 04:29:58 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Backport changelog for 2.6.1 release

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 CHANGELOG.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1ecfc43..5894b83 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Removed
 * Dropped support for Python 3.9 [gh-118](https://github.com/IntelPython/mkl-service/pull/118)
 
+## [2.6.1] (11/25/2025)
+
+### Fixed
+* Fixed the run-time dependencies of `mkl-service` package to explicitly depend on a non–free-threaded (GIL-enabled) Python [gh-111](github.com/IntelPython/mkl-service/pull/111)
+
 ## [2.6.0] (10/06/2025)
 
 ### Added