diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 30567982d..8702e21db 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+Version 7.7.1-beta1
+
 Daniel (26 March 2001)
 - Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistant HTTP/1.0
   connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 9d9c7a7ff..8b4c75be3 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -481,8 +481,8 @@ char *curl_escape(char *string, int length);
 char *curl_unescape(char *string, int length);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7"
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070700
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7.1-beta1"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070701
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
 struct curl_slist {