diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e69de29bb2d..8c34a1950c3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- Bump the Firebase Data Connect local toolkit to v1.6.1, which fixes the `OrderDirection` enum with `Optional` types in Dart codegen and adds `@ExperimentalFirebaseDataConnect` annotations in Kotlin codegen to avoid compiler warnings. (#7912)
diff --git a/src/emulator/downloadableEmulators.ts b/src/emulator/downloadableEmulators.ts
index ab8c906f305..fc30fdfb191 100755
--- a/src/emulator/downloadableEmulators.ts
+++ b/src/emulator/downloadableEmulators.ts
@@ -59,20 +59,20 @@ const EMULATOR_UPDATE_DETAILS: { [s in DownloadableEmulators]: EmulatorUpdateDet
   dataconnect:
     process.platform === "darwin"
       ? {
-          version: "1.6.0",
-          expectedSize: 25301760,
-          expectedChecksum: "4fad7ada11b35ecea6c8aadf132a5a8a",
+          version: "1.6.1",
+          expectedSize: 25309952,
+          expectedChecksum: "826692eb4ed9cf11becb595c386eb7bf",
         }
       : process.platform === "win32"
         ? {
-            version: "1.6.0",
-            expectedSize: 25731072,
-            expectedChecksum: "8d3a59cc79cd74199ee1d8c28012297f",
+            version: "1.6.1",
+            expectedSize: 25737728,
+            expectedChecksum: "1e87a3a1f95d7b21cebf18f551619167",
           }
         : {
-            version: "1.6.0",
-            expectedSize: 25219224,
-            expectedChecksum: "ceb10cfca7ded004c48f7724dbc0cccf",
+            version: "1.6.1",
+            expectedSize: 25223320,
+            expectedChecksum: "b13218419fcaaa3ad22005ce8378412d",
           },
 };