diff --git a/academic/sage/sage.SlackBuild b/academic/sage/sage.SlackBuild
index 85019df122..bdbbd7bfda 100644
--- a/academic/sage/sage.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/sage/sage.SlackBuild
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Currently maintained by Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
 
 PRGNAM=sage
-VERSION=${VERSION:-6.0}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-6.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ fi
 
 cp -av * $PKG/$SAGEROOT
 
-find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
+find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
 
 # Sage installs specific versions of a number of software components which
diff --git a/academic/sage/sage.info b/academic/sage/sage.info
index 73423c1825..249c2b360c 100644
--- a/academic/sage/sage.info
+++ b/academic/sage/sage.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="sage"
-VERSION="6.0"
+VERSION="6.1"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.sagemath.org"
-DOWNLOAD="http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/sagemath/sage-mirror/src/sage-6.0.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="da1bacf90fc291e736aaa71431e8874e"
+DOWNLOAD="http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/sagemath/sage-mirror/src/sage-6.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="75130374fcdb9395955db81f1ed28422"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES=""