Merge pull request #5185 from plotly/release-6.1.0

version bump 6.1.0

Author: emilykl

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
-## [6.1.0rc0] - 2025-05-01
+## [6.1.0] - 2025-05-15
 
 ### Updated
-- Add support for Kaleido>=v1.0.0 for image generation, and deprecate support for Kaleido<1 and Orca [[#5062](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5062)]
+- Add support for Kaleido>=v1.0.0 for image generation [[#5062](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5062), [#5177](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/5177)]
 - Reduce package bundle size by 18-24% via changes to code generation [[#4978](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/pull/4978)]
 
 ### Fixed

pyproject.toml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
 license = {file="LICENSE.txt"}
-version = "6.1.0rc0"
+version = "6.1.0"
 dependencies = [
     "narwhals>=1.15.1",
     "packaging"
@@ -114,4 +114,4 @@ skip_symlink = true
 
 "share/jupyter/labextensions/jupyterlab-plotly/static" = [
   "plotly/labextension/static/*.js"
-]
+]