diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 3e741be..521cf4b 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: mlr3spatial
 Title: Support for Spatial Objects Within the 'mlr3' Ecosystem
-Version: 0.6.0.9000
-Date: 2025-07-18
+Version: 0.6.1
+Date: 2025-09-14
 Authors@R:
     c(
      person("Marc", "Becker", , "marcbecker@posteo.de", role = c("aut", "cre"),
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ URL: https://mlr3spatial.mlr-org.com,
     https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3spatial
 BugReports: https://github.com/mlr-org/mlr3spatial/issues
 Depends:
-    mlr3 (>= 1.1.0),
+    mlr3 (>= 1.2.0),
     R (>= 3.1.0)
 Imports:
     checkmate (>= 2.0.0),
@@ -42,8 +42,6 @@ Suggests:
     rpart,
     stars (>= 0.5-5),
     testthat (>= 3.0.0)
-Remotes:
-    mlr-org/mlr3
 VignetteBuilder:
     knitr
 Config/testthat/edition: 3
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index a711d40..f607705 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ importFrom(R6,R6Class)
 importFrom(R6,is.R6)
 importFrom(methods,as)
 importFrom(stats,complete.cases)
+importFrom(stats,runif)
 importFrom(terra,cats)
 importFrom(terra,head)
 importFrom(terra,intersect)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index aec7e2b..3f0240e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-# mlr3spatial (development version)
+# mlr3spatial 0.6.1
+
+* compatibility: mlr3 1.2.0 removed the data format argument
+* fix: `$predict_newdata()` and `predict_spatial()` work without optional column roles like `coordinate` now.
 
 # mlr3spatial 0.6.0
 
diff --git a/R/data.R b/R/data.R
index f433035..2d8354a 100644
--- a/R/data.R
+++ b/R/data.R
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ generate_stack = function(layers, layer_size = NULL, dimension = NULL, multi_lay
     if (layer$type == "numeric") {
       data = matrix(c(stats::rnorm(floor(dimension^2 / 2), 0, 1), stats::rnorm(ceiling(dimension^2 / 2), 1, 1)), nrow = dimension)
       ras = rast(data)
+      terra::crs(ras) = "EPSG:4326"
       if (!layer$in_memory && !multi_layer_file) {
         filename = tempfile(fileext = ".tif")
         writeRaster(ras, filename)
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ generate_stack = function(layers, layer_size = NULL, dimension = NULL, multi_lay
     } else if (layer$type == "factor") {
       data = matrix(rep(seq_along(layer$levels), each = floor(dimension^2 / length(layer$levels)), length.out = dimension^2), nrow = dimension)
       ras = rast(data)
+      terra::crs(ras) = "EPSG:4326"
       ras = terra::categories(ras, layer = 1, data.table(ID = seq_along(layer$levels), category = layer$levels))
       if (!layer$in_memory && !multi_layer_file) {
         filename = tempfile(fileext = ".tif")
@@ -117,6 +119,7 @@ generate_stack = function(layers, layer_size = NULL, dimension = NULL, multi_lay
     } else if (layer$type == "weights") {
       data = matrix(runif(dimension^2, 0, 1), nrow = dimension)
       ras = rast(data)
+      terra::crs(ras) = "EPSG:4326"
       if (!layer$in_memory && !multi_layer_file) {
         filename = tempfile(fileext = ".tif")
         writeRaster(ras, filename)
diff --git a/R/zzz.R b/R/zzz.R
index a4d76be..2550a31 100644
--- a/R/zzz.R
+++ b/R/zzz.R
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #' @import mlr3
 #' @import sf
 #' @importFrom R6 R6Class is.R6
-#' @importFrom stats complete.cases
+#' @importFrom stats complete.cases runif
 #' @importFrom utils getFromNamespace data
 #'
 #' @section Learn mlr3:
diff --git a/man/mlr3spatial-package.Rd b/man/mlr3spatial-package.Rd
index 05ee881..3e04da4 100644
--- a/man/mlr3spatial-package.Rd
+++ b/man/mlr3spatial-package.Rd
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ likely be removed in a future version of the package. analysis.
 \references{
 Becker M, Schratz P (2025).
 \emph{mlr3spatial: Support for Spatial Objects Within the 'mlr3' Ecosystem}.
-R package version 0.6.0.9000, \url{https://mlr3spatial.mlr-org.com}.
+R package version 0.6.1, \url{https://mlr3spatial.mlr-org.com}.
 }
 \seealso{
 Useful links:
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test_DataBackendRaster.R b/tests/testthat/test_DataBackendRaster.R
index ca151b0..3913a65 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test_DataBackendRaster.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test_DataBackendRaster.R
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ test_that("data prototyp works", {
   )
   backend = DataBackendRaster$new(stack)
 
-  expect_data_table(backend$data(rows = integer(0), cols = c("x_1", "y")), nrows = 0, ncols = 2)
+  suppressWarnings(expect_data_table(backend$data(rows = integer(0), cols = c("x_1", "y")), nrows = 0, ncols = 2))
 })
 
 test_that("in memory rasters work", {