[gobject-introspection] Update NEWS; version bump

[Christoph Reiter <creiter src gnome org>]

commit 8845bb71aed95d9f679582664fe9d8816d4c6a80
Author: Christoph Reiter <reiter christoph gmail com>
Date:   Sun Mar 10 14:53:12 2019 +0100

    Update NEWS; version bump

 NEWS         | 10 ++++++++++
 configure.ac |  4 ++--
 meson.build  |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d949d223..df4b1fbb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+1.60.0 - 2019-03-10
+-------------------
+
+NOTE: This is the last release supporting autotools. Please try building with
+meson instead and report any problems. This does not affect projects using
+autotools + g-i, only the build of g-i itself.
+
+* gir: Update glib annotations :mr:`142` :mr:`141` (:user:`Andrea Azzarone <azzaronea>`)
+
+
 1.59.5 - 2019-03-04
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c179e899..340a3aca 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 
 dnl the gi version number
 m4_define(gi_major_version, 1)
-m4_define(gi_minor_version, 59)
-m4_define(gi_micro_version, 6)
+m4_define(gi_minor_version, 61)
+m4_define(gi_micro_version, 1)
 m4_define(gi_version, gi_major_version.gi_minor_version.gi_micro_version)
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.63])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 3ca3b6d3..d5709521 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gobject-introspection', 'c',
-  version: '1.59.6',
+  version: '1.61.1',
   meson_version: '>= 0.47.0',
   default_options: [
     'warning_level=1',