diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2d26a077..84eba465 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
 
 Full release notes with details on each version: [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/safishamsi/graphify/releases)
 
+## 0.6.1 (2026-05-01)
+
+- Fix: `.graphifyignore` discovery now uses correct gitignore semantics — outer rules are loaded first so inner (closer) rules always win via last-match-wins, matching standard gitignore behavior (#643)
+- Fix: without a VCS root, `.graphifyignore` discovery is now hermetic to the scan folder — no leakage across sibling projects in a shared workspace (#643)
+- Fix: anchored patterns (leading `/`) in a parent `.graphifyignore` now correctly apply only relative to their own directory, not the scan root (#643)
+- Fix: trailing spaces in patterns are now handled per gitignore spec — unescaped trailing spaces are stripped, `vendor\ ` (escaped) is preserved (#643)
+
 ## 0.6.0 (2026-05-01)
 
 - Feat: SQL AST extractor — `.sql` files now processed deterministically via tree-sitter. Extracts tables, views, functions/procedures, foreign key references, and FROM/JOIN reads_from edges. No LLM needed. Requires `pip install 'graphifyy[sql]'` (#349)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c721dd39..d667ac6d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ dist/
 *.generated.py
 ```
 
-Same syntax as `.gitignore`. You can keep a single `.graphifyignore` at your repo root — patterns work correctly even when graphify is run on a subfolder.
+Same syntax as `.gitignore`. You can keep a single `.graphifyignore` at your repo root — patterns work correctly even when graphify is run on a subfolder. Discovery never crosses a VCS boundary (`.git`, `.hg`, etc.), so sibling projects in a shared workspace don't leak rules into each other. Without a VCS root, only the scan folder's own `.graphifyignore` applies.
 
 ## How it works
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 649d9ce6..1109afa3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "graphifyy"
-version = "0.6.0"
+version = "0.6.1"
 description = "AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Aider, OpenClaw, Factory Droid, Trae, Hermes, Kiro, Google Antigravity) - turn any folder of code, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }