docs: changelog from 1.6.1 for main (#1185)

## Description

<!-- Describe what changes you made and why -->

Cherry-picking the release commit from 1.6.1 to update the changelog
here too.

## Changelog

<!-- All PRs should include a changelog fragment in docs/changelog/ -->


## Checklist

- [ ] Tests pass locally (`tox`)
- [ ] Code follows project style (`tox -e fix`)
- [ ] Type checks pass (`tox -e type`)
- [ ] Documentation builds (`tox -e docs`)

Co-authored-by: gaborbernat-build-release[bot] <321917912+gaborbernat-build-release[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: henryiii

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+####################
+ 1.6.1 (2026-09-10)
+####################
+
+**********
+ Bugfixes
+**********
+
+- Avoid trying to detect symlinks on Windows, regression in 1.6.0 - by :user:`henryiii` (:issue:`1175`) (:issue:`1175`)
+
+***************
+ Documentation
+***************
+
+- Fix doubled backslashes in the Windows pip config path (``%APPDATA%\pip\pip.ini``) in the docs - by :user:`aroh3006`
+  (:issue:`1149`)
+
+***************
+ Miscellaneous
+***************
+
+- :issue:`1168`, :issue:`1170`, :issue:`1178`
+
 ####################
  1.6.0 (2026-08-27)
 ####################

docs/changelog/1149.doc.rst

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 from ._util import check_dependency
 
 
-__version__ = '1.6.0'
+__version__ = '1.6.1'
 
 __all__ = [
     'BuildBackendException',