diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d05cca184..1996901a9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## Master (Unreleased)
 
+## 3.0.1 (2024-06-11)
+
+- Bump RuboCop requirement to +1.61. ([@ydah])
+
 ## 3.0.0 (2024-06-11)
 
 - Remove extracted cops in `Capybara`, `FactoryBot` and `Rails` departments. ([@ydah])
diff --git a/lib/rubocop/rspec/version.rb b/lib/rubocop/rspec/version.rb
index 92998daa8..79d587230 100644
--- a/lib/rubocop/rspec/version.rb
+++ b/lib/rubocop/rspec/version.rb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ module RuboCop
   module RSpec
     # Version information for the RSpec RuboCop plugin.
     module Version
-      STRING = '3.0.0'
+      STRING = '3.0.1'
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/rubocop-rspec.gemspec b/rubocop-rspec.gemspec
index 9c52b6a36..6b1ada365 100644
--- a/rubocop-rspec.gemspec
+++ b/rubocop-rspec.gemspec
@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
     'rubygems_mfa_required' => 'true'
   }
 
-  spec.add_dependency 'rubocop', '~> 1.40'
+  spec.add_dependency 'rubocop', '~> 1.61'
 end