diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 374bc0b..e8f2d5a 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -16,14 +16,17 @@ jinyuanliu (liujinyuan@inspur.com)
 John Dickinson (me@not.mn)
 Kota Tsuyuzaki (bloodeagle40234@gmail.com)
 Mark Storer (Mark.Storer@evault.com)
+Martin Kopec (mkopec@redhat.com)
 Matthew Oliver (matt@oliver.net.au)
 Ondřej Nový (ondrej.novy@firma.seznam.cz)
 Paul Belanger (pabelanger@redhat.com)
 Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev@kotori.zaitcev.us)
+Takashi Kajinami (kajinamit@oss.nttdata.com)
 Thiago da Silva (thiago@redhat.com)
 Tim Burke (tim.burke@gmail.com)
 Timur Alperovich (timuralp@swiftstack.com)
 Tovin Seven (vinhnt@vn.fujitsu.com)
 Victor Stinner (vstinner@redhat.com)
+wangjiaqi07 (wangjiaqi07@inspur.com)
 Yuan Zhou (yuan.zhou@intel.com)
 
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b5a79cf..155dbaf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+New in 1.6.2
+------------
+
+ * Updated liberasurecode dependency to 1.4.0. For more information,
+   see https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyeclib/+bug/1639691
+ * Fix a resource leak when creating many ECDrivers.
+ * Test against Python 3.11 - 3.13.
+ * Fix building on free-threaded Python 3.13.
+
 New in 1.6.1
 ------------
 
diff --git a/pyeclib/ec_iface.py b/pyeclib/ec_iface.py
index e34beda..9be760d 100644
--- a/pyeclib/ec_iface.py
+++ b/pyeclib/ec_iface.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def PyECLibVersion(z, y, x):
 
 PYECLIB_MAJOR = 1
 PYECLIB_MINOR = 6
-PYECLIB_REV = 1
+PYECLIB_REV = 2
 PYECLIB_VERSION = PyECLibVersion(PYECLIB_MAJOR, PYECLIB_MINOR,
                                  PYECLIB_REV)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 48f8fbb..f2546e6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ module = Extension('pyeclib_c',
                    sources=['src/c/pyeclib_c/pyeclib_c.c'])
 
 setup(name='pyeclib',
-      version='1.6.1',
+      version='1.6.2rc1',
       author='Kevin Greenan',
       author_email='kmgreen2@gmail.com',
       maintainer='Kevin Greenan and Tushar Gohad',