diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 77e1b9113a7673..2d7dd9e55c3fec 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ release.
 </tr>
 <tr>
   <td valign="top">
-<b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.17.0">6.17.0</a></b><br/>
+<b><a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.17.1">6.17.1</a></b><br/>
+<a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.17.0">6.17.0</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.16.0">6.16.0</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.15.1">6.15.1</a><br/>
 <a href="doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md#6.15.0">6.15.0</a><br/>
diff --git a/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md b/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md
index b06ca752a85fcc..73864eeee4d646 100644
--- a/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md
+++ b/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V6.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td valign="top">
+<a href="#6.17.1">6.17.1</a><br/>
 <a href="#6.17.0">6.17.0</a><br/>
 <a href="#6.16.0">6.16.0</a><br/>
 <a href="#6.15.1">6.15.1</a><br/>
@@ -69,6 +70,26 @@
 [Node.js Long Term Support Plan](https://github.com/nodejs/LTS) and
 will be supported actively until April 2018 and maintained until April 2019.
 
+<a id="6.17.1"></a>
+## 2019-04-02, Version 6.17.1 'Boron' (LTS), @BethGriggs
+
+Node 6 is due to go End-of-Life on 2019-04-30. 
+
+### Notable Changes
+
+* **http**: 
+  - fix error check in `Execute()` (Brian White) [#25939](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25939)
+
+### Commits
+
+* [[`c9d21a0c10`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c9d21a0c10)] - **build**: set `-blibpath:` for AIX (Richard Lau) [#25447](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25447)
+* [[`9ba5fd6bad`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9ba5fd6bad)] - **build**: only check REPLACEME & DEP...X for releases (Rod Vagg) [#24575](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/24575)
+* [[`1371a6f88b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/1371a6f88b)] - **doc**: simplify CODE\_OF\_CONDUCT.md (Rich Trott) [#23989](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23989)
+* [[`ad62971573`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/ad62971573)] - **doc**: document that addMembership must be called once in a cluster (James M Snell) [#23746](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23746)
+* [[`8080a9bf40`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/8080a9bf40)] - **http**: fix error check in `Execute()` (Brian White) [#25939](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25939)
+* [[`aedc7120ea`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/aedc7120ea)] - **src**: fix bootstrap\_node on bsd (sylkat) [#22663](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/22663)
+* [[`b5d464955a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/b5d464955a)] - **test**: fix test-repl-envvars (Anna Henningsen) [#25226](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/25226)
+
 <a id="6.17.0"></a>
 ## 2018-02-28, Version 6.17.0 'Boron' (LTS), @rvagg
 
diff --git a/src/node_version.h b/src/node_version.h
index aaae300aa52791..502a759c3ce794 100644
--- a/src/node_version.h
+++ b/src/node_version.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #define NODE_VERSION_IS_LTS 1
 #define NODE_VERSION_LTS_CODENAME "Boron"
 
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)