Update docs and patchlevel for 3.6.1 final
diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index b42a0db..54a9ab6 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION	3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	6
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION	1
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	0
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"3.6.1rc1"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"3.6.1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 653510b..4807bd0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 Python News
 +++++++++++
 
-What's New in Python 3.6.1 final?
-=================================
+What's New in Python 3.6.1?
+===========================
 
-*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
+*Release date: 2017-03-21*
 
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
@@ -18,24 +18,12 @@
   are inadvertently modified when inserting the import location named on the
   command line.
 
-- bpo-29714: Fix a regression that bytes format may fail when containing zero
-  bytes inside.
+Build
+-----
 
-Library
--------
+- bpo-27593: fix format of git information used in sys.version
 
-- bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array 'Q', 'L' and 'I' from accepting big
-  intables (objects that have __int__) as elements.  Patch by Oren Milman.
-
-- bpo-28231: The zipfile module now accepts path-like objects for external
-  paths.
-
-- bpo-26915: index() and count() methods of collections.abc.Sequence now
-  check identity before checking equality when do comparisons.
-
-- bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other
-  exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods.
-  Patch by Petr Motejlek.
+- Fix incompatible comment in python.h
 
 
 What's New in Python 3.6.1 release candidate 1
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 242572c..9ea0360 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 3.6.1 release candidate 1
-================================================
+This is Python version 3.6.1
+============================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.6
    :alt: CPython build status on Travis CI