diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4570598..7969813 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Release 1.7 (2010-08-13)
+========================
+- Always wake up readers after writing
+- Get rid of PATH_MAX and MAXPATHLEN
+- Add ~ operator support in code generator
+- xcb_open: Improve protocol/host parsing
+- xcb_connect_to_display_with_auth_info: Fix memory leak
+- Report which extensions are being built
+
 Release 1.6 (2010-04-09)
 ========================
 - darwin: xnu doesn't support poll on ttys on the master side
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 71be9d6..4178989 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
 AC_INIT([libxcb],
-        1.6,
+        1.7,
         [xcb@lists.freedesktop.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([xcb.pc.in])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2])