diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f8da505f1..0000000000
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-This roadmap is a rough plan of upcoming work. Contributions are welcome at anytime,
-no matter where something is on this list.
-
-## Upcoming releases
-### [C API 1.0](https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/milestone/1)
-- Reduce memory usage of loading and saving by making them zero in-memory copy.
-- Document all structs and methods that will be stable and supported indefinitely. 
-- Remove legacy cruft.
-- Return genotypes as 32bit ints.
-- Other clean up including sorting bugs and small features.  (see milestone issue list)
-
-
-## [Python 0.5.0](https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/milestone/32)
-- Python release to accompany C API 1.0.
-- Random access to site genotypes
-
-## [Python 0.5.1](https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/milestone/33)
-- Python release to complete features needed for the tskit paper.
-- Fast newick parsing
-
-## [Python 0.5.2](https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/milestone/27)
-
-## Medium term priorities
-
-### [Metadata](https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/projects/7)
- - Improve user experience by adding convenience methods for updating, retrieving metadata and schemas
- - Codec performance
- - Standardised schemas
-
-### [Stats API](https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/projects/6)
- - Added stats and options
- - Improve errors
- - (Fully deal with missing data)[https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/issues/287]
- - Time windowed statistics
-
-### [Random Tree Access](https://github.com/tskit-dev/tskit/projects/5)
- - Build indexes to allow performant random tree access
-
diff --git a/c/CHANGELOG.rst b/c/CHANGELOG.rst
index 2d286ed575..1b8ab00aea 100644
--- a/c/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/c/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+--------------------
+[1.1.4] - 2024-XX-XX
+--------------------
+
+
+
 --------------------
 [1.1.3] - 2024-10-16
 --------------------
diff --git a/docs/development.md b/docs/development.md
index 5aaa8c8ed8..b32dd88a40 100644
--- a/docs/development.md
+++ b/docs/development.md
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@ the release looks good there, then publish the draft release on the
 Publishing this release will cause the github
 action to deploy to the [production PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/tskit/).
 After release, start a section in the changelog for new developments, close the
-GitHub issue milestone of the release and update ROADMAP.md.
+GitHub issue milestone of the release and update the python version to a `.dev`.
 For a major release the website (github repo tskit-dev/tskit-site) should then
 be updated with a notebook of new features. The benchmarks should be run as above
 and the `bench-results.html` updated on the website.
diff --git a/python/CHANGELOG.rst b/python/CHANGELOG.rst
index 0e1aa9ccc8..36c69979ee 100644
--- a/python/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/python/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+--------------------
+[0.6.1] - 2024-XX-XX
+--------------------
+
+
 --------------------
 [0.6.0] - 2024-10-16
 --------------------
diff --git a/python/tskit/_version.py b/python/tskit/_version.py
index 43b7f59a3f..393df0d2aa 100644
--- a/python/tskit/_version.py
+++ b/python/tskit/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Definitive location for the version number.
 # During development, should be x.y.z.devN
 # For beta should be x.y.zbN
-tskit_version = "0.6.0"
+tskit_version = "0.6.1.dev0"