diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 85058f254..03983099d 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  - merged disable-broken.sh into lx_config.sh incl. status output
  - added a powerpc kernel26-disable.lst to fix linux26 for PowerPC
  - Sebastian Jaenicke: updated samba (3.0.1)
+ - Alan J. Wylie: updated spamassassin
 
 *) 2003-12-21 (2.0.0-rc3 - 2.0.0-rc4)
 
diff --git a/package/rene/spamassassin/spamassassin.desc b/package/rene/spamassassin/spamassassin.desc
index e82606626..52b759708 100644
--- a/package/rene/spamassassin/spamassassin.desc
+++ b/package/rene/spamassassin/spamassassin.desc
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.60-rc4
+[V] 2.61
 [P] X -----5---9 230.000
 
-[D] 1667701556 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60-rc4.tar.gz http://www.spamassassin.org/released/
+[D] 3714886499 Mail-SpamAssassin-2.61.tar.gz http://www.spamassassin.org/released/