diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 43bc21cc..48216f09 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ project (timew)
 include (CXXSniffer)
 include (FindAsciidoctor)
 
-set (PROJECT_VERSION "1.7.0-dev")
+set (PROJECT_VERSION "1.7.1")
 
 string(TOUPPER "${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}" uppercase_CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
 
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 66d25a18..038b1ab1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+------ current release ---------------------------
+
+1.7.1 (2024-01-16) -
+
 - #580    internal parsing of tags starting with number broken
           (thanks to arxel-sc)
 - #582    Retrieval of intervals with tags containing hyphens is broken
@@ -5,7 +9,7 @@
 - #583    README - Update build instructions
           (thanks to Joachim Meyer)
 
------- current release ---------------------------
+------ old releases ------------------------------
 
 1.7.0 (2023-12-24) - 63f7fc95a0fa20dc768ae4e94b7f2d79c306f9dd
 
@@ -23,8 +27,6 @@
 -         Refactor holidays/refresh script
 -         Update task-timewarrior-hook script to 87a3426d8153f92aaee2edf36b2de62e48c4de0e
 
------- old releases ------------------------------
-
 1.6.0 (2023-09-18) - cd1aa610ed50558bb2cf141022fa7b41523091ac3ae5fbb9c2d459cfe1afc782
 
 - #529    Fix summary truncating multibyte characters in long annotations
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9ee03a47..4a8a4430 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ There are two ways to retrieve the Timewarrior sources:
   ```
 * Or download the tarball with curl,
   ```
-  curl -O https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior/releases/download/v1.7.0/timew-1.7.0.tar.gz
+  curl -O https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/timewarrior/releases/download/v1.7.1/timew-1.7.1.tar.gz
   ```
   and expand the tarball
   ```
-  tar xzf timew-1.7.0.tar.gz
-  cd timew-1.7.0
+  tar xzf timew-1.7.1.tar.gz
+  cd timew-1.7.1
   ```
 Build Timewarrior, optionally run the test suite, and install it.
 ```