diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 04aa18bb4..af669f375 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-curl and libcurl 7.71.1
+curl and libcurl 7.71.2
 
  Public curl releases:         193
  Command line options:         232
@@ -6,26 +6,14 @@ curl and libcurl 7.71.1
  Public functions in libcurl:  82
  Contributors:                 2210
 
+
+This release includes the following changes:
+
+ o
+
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
- o cirrus-ci: disable FreeBSD 13 (again) [14]
- o Curl_inet_ntop: always check the return code [12]
- o CURLOPT_READFUNCTION.3: provide the upload data size up front [5]
- o DYNBUF.md: fix a typo: trail => tail [2]
- o escape: make the URL decode able to reject only %00-bytes
- o escape: zero length input should return a zero length output [11]
- o examples/multithread.c: call curl_global_cleanup() [16]
- o http2: set the correct URL in pushed transfers [9]
- o http: fix proxy auth with blank password [3]
- o mbedtls: fix build with disabled proxy support [7]
- o ngtcp2: sync with current master [15]
- o openssl: Fix compilation on Windows when ngtcp2 is enabled [10]
- o Revert "multi: implement wait using winsock events" [6]
- o sendf: improve the message on client write errors [13]
- o terminology: call them null-terminated strings [1]
- o tool_cb_hdr: Fix etag warning output and return code [4]
- o url: allow user + password to contain "control codes" for HTTP(S) [8]
- o vtls: compare cert blob when finding a connection to reuse [17]
+ o
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -34,30 +22,9 @@ This release includes the following known bugs:
 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
-  Alexandre Pion, Baruch Siach, coinhubs on github, Daniel Stenberg,
-  Denis Baručić, Gergely Nagy, Javier Blazquez, Jonathan Cardoso Machado,
-  Jon Johnson Jr, Kristoffer Gleditsch, Lucien Zürcher, Nicolas Sterchele,
-  qiandu2006 on github, Ray Satiro, Siva Sivaraman, tmkk on github,
-  (16 contributors)
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
 
 References to bug reports and discussions on issues:
 
- [1] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5598
- [2] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5599
- [3] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5613
- [4] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5612
- [5] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5607
- [6] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5631
- [7] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5615
- [8] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5582
- [9] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5589
- [10] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5606
- [11] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5601
- [12] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5412
- [13] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5594
- [14] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5628
- [15] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5624
- [16] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5622
- [17] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=5617
+ [1] = https://curl.haxx.se/bug/?i=
diff --git a/include/curl/curlver.h b/include/curl/curlver.h
index fe29f0fff..f2da5a08c 100644
--- a/include/curl/curlver.h
+++ b/include/curl/curlver.h
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@
 
 /* This is the version number of the libcurl package from which this header
    file origins: */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.71.1-DEV"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.71.2-DEV"
 
 /* The numeric version number is also available "in parts" by using these
    defines: */
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR 7
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_MINOR 71
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH 1
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH 2
 
 /* This is the numeric version of the libcurl version number, meant for easier
    parsing and comparisons by programs. The LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM define will
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
    CURL_VERSION_BITS() macro since curl's own configure script greps for it
    and needs it to contain the full number.
 */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x074701
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x074702
 
 /*
  * This is the date and time when the full source package was created. The