diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index 468b13f62ac3e..5998aad493401 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
   ".": "3.0.0",
-  "operator": "0.6.0"
+  "operator": "0.6.1"
 }
diff --git a/operator/CHANGELOG.md b/operator/CHANGELOG.md
index 3a6f2454ab203..ac0bea91afc32 100644
--- a/operator/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/operator/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,21 @@
 
 - [11708](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/11708) **btaani**: Add support for Swift TLS CA configuration
 
+## [0.6.1](https://github.com/grafana/loki/compare/operator/v0.6.0...operator/v0.6.1) (2024-04-19)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* prepare 3.0.0 release candidate ([#12348](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12348)) ([664e569](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/664e569e14ef55a79cd77bdb49e9ffbe0c55bc37))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **operator:** Bump golang builder to 1.21.9 ([#12503](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12503)) ([f680ee0](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/f680ee0453d1b7d315774591293927b988bca223))
+* **operator:** Configure Loki to use virtual-host-style URLs for S3 AWS endpoints ([#12469](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12469)) ([0084262](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/0084262269f4e2cb94d04e0cc0d40e9666177f06))
+* **operator:** Improve validation of provided S3 storage configuration ([#12181](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12181)) ([f9350d6](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/f9350d6415d45c3cc2f9c0b4f7cd6f8f219907f2))
+* updated all dockerfiles go1.22 ([#12708](https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/12708)) ([71a8f2c](https://github.com/grafana/loki/commit/71a8f2c2b11b419bd8c0af1f859671e5d8730448))
+
 ## 0.6.0 (2024-03-19)
 
 - [12228](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/12228) **xperimental**: Restructure LokiStack metrics