Release 1.6.1

This fixed a few important bugs that came up as a result of not being thorough
enough with my testing.
diff --git a/README b/README
index 2e6f306..5eed158 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -225,6 +225,14 @@
 CHANGES
 =======
 
+1.6.1 - 2012-11-24
+------------------
+
+- fixed the mercurial hook, a change from a previous patch was not properly 
+  applied
+- fixed an assumption about warnings/error messages that caused an exception 
+  to be thrown when McCabe is used
+
 1.6 - 2012-11-16
 ----------------
 
diff --git a/flake8/__init__.py b/flake8/__init__.py
index 9170b70..8cc8d9b 100644
--- a/flake8/__init__.py
+++ b/flake8/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #
 
-__version__ = '1.7'
+__version__ = '1.6.1'