diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 214991f49..40469d798 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+Version 7.6.1
+
 Daniel (9 February 2001)
-- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a
-  HTTPS PUT problem we seem to have.
+- Frank Reid and Cain Hopwood provided information and research around a HTTPS
+  PUT/upload problem we seem to have. No solution found yet.
 
 Daniel (8 February 2001)
 - An interesting discussion is how to specify an empty password without having
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index b69ea1e90..5d10d0d15 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ char *curl_getenv(char *variable);
 char *curl_version(void);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.6.1-pre3"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.6.1"
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070601
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index b7c1dc980..0a11cfd4d 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.6.1-pre3"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.6.1"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "