diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index da3e9e683..ea5bf826e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,11 +6,17 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+Version 7.7.1
+
 Daniel (3 April 2001)
 - Puneet Pawaia pointed out two serious problems. Libcurl would attempt to
   read bad memory during situations when an (ftp) connection attempt failed.
   Also, the lib/Makefile.vc6 was corrected.
 
+- More investigations in the Location: following code made me realize that
+  it was not clean enough to work transparantly with persistant and non-
+  persistant connections. I think I've fixed it now.
+
 Daniel (29 March 2001)
 - Georg Horn mailed me some corrections for the Curl::easy perl interface.
 
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 8b4c75be3..0a612c006 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ char *curl_escape(char *string, int length);
 char *curl_unescape(char *string, int length);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7.1-beta1"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7.1"
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070701
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index c95f678b9..9ee8118b8 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.7"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.7.1"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "