diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2e84fa9a..1843f428 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,16 @@
 
+Version 0.7.1 - March 2, 2011
+
+- Add support for JSON-format configuration file.  See example
+  file example-cfg.json.  Any long argument on the command line
+  may be stored in the config file.
+- Timestamp each solution found
+- Improve sha256_4way performance.  NOTE: This optimization makes
+  the 'hash' debug-print output for sha256_way incorrect.
+- Use __builtin_expect() intrinsic as compiler micro-optimization
+- Build on Intel compiler
+- HTTP library now follows HTTP redirects
+
 Version 0.7 - February 12, 2011
 
 - Re-use CURL object, thereby reuseing DNS cache and HTTP connections
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f6d218b5..25ee2fad 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-AC_INIT([cpuminer], [0.7])
+AC_INIT([cpuminer], [0.7.1])
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.52)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([cpu-miner.c])