diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 841977e3154..9172d96d2dc 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "1.60.1"
+    ".": "1.61.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 73c7bbe2be4..795c11e695d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [1.61.0](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-python/compare/v1.60.1...v1.61.0) (2026-07-22)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **generation:** update request builders and models ([9c80da1](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-python/commit/9c80da183f2e3732cac1ebde821402c68baad69a))
+
 ## [1.60.1](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-beta-sdk-python/compare/v1.60.0...v1.60.1) (2026-07-14)
 
 
diff --git a/msgraph_beta/_version.py b/msgraph_beta/_version.py
index c329e5aec5c..fa5fee76074 100644
--- a/msgraph_beta/_version.py
+++ b/msgraph_beta/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # The SDK version
 # x-release-please-start-version
-VERSION: str = '1.60.1'
+VERSION: str = '1.61.0'
 # x-release-please-end
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6461ab92ed4..3a9f0721404 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ name = "msgraph-beta-sdk"
 
 # The SDK version
 # x-release-please-start-version
-version = "1.60.1"
+version = "1.61.0"
 # x-release-please-end
 authors = [{name = "Microsoft", email = "graphtooling+python@microsoft.com"}]
 description = "The Microsoft Graph Beta Python SDK"