diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index b09306f11..54e75bdeb 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Curl and libcurl 7.16.3
+Curl and libcurl 7.16.4
 
- Public curl release number:               99
+ Public curl release number:               100
  Releases counted from the very beginning: 126
  Available command line options:           118
  Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     141
@@ -11,57 +11,11 @@ Curl and libcurl 7.16.3
 
 This release includes the following changes:
  
- o added curl_multi_socket_action()
- o deprecated curl_multi_socket()
- o uses less memory in non-pipelined use cases
- o CURLOPT_HTTP200ALIASES matched transfers assume HTTP 1.0 compliance
- o more than one test harness can run at the same time without conflict
- o SFTP now supports quote commands before a transfer
- o CURLMOPT_MAXCONNECTS added to curl_multi_setopt()
- o upload resume works for file:// URLs
- o asynchronous name resolves now require c-ares 1.4.0 or later
- o added SOCKS test cases
- o CURLOPT_FTP_CREATE_MISSING_DIRS and --ftp-create-dirs now work for SFTP
-   operations as well
+ o 
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
- o if2up too long interface name memory leak
- o test case 534 started to fail 2007-04-13 due to the existance of a
-   new host on the net with the same silly domain the test was using
-   for a host which was supposed not to exist.
- o test suite SSL certificate works better with newer stunnel
- o internal progress meter update frequency back to once per second
- o avoid some unnecessary calls to function gettimeofday
- o a double-free in the SSL-layer
- o GnuTLS free of NULL credentials
- o NSS-fix for closing down SSL
- o bad warning from configure when gnutls was selected
- o compilation on VMS 64-bit mode
- o SCP/SFTP downloads could hang on the last bytes of a transfer
- o curl_easy_duphandle() crash
- o curl -V / curl_version*() works even when GnuTLS is used on a system without
-   a good random source
- o curl_multi_socket() not "noticing" newly added handles
- o lack of Content-Length and chunked encoding now requires HTTP 1.1 as well
-   to be treated as without response body
- o connection cache growth in multi handles
- o better handling of out of memory conditions
- o overwriting an uploaded file with sftp now truncates it first
- o SFTP quote commands chmod, chown, chgrp can now set a value of 0
- o TFTP connect timouts less than 5 seconds
- o improved curl -w for TFTP transfers
- o memory leak when failed OpenSSL certificate CN field checking
- o memory leak when OpenSSL failed PKCS #12 parsing
- o FPL-SSL when built with NSS
- o out-of-boundary write in Curl_select()
- o -s/--silent can now be used to toggle off the silence again
- o builds fine on 64bit HP-UX
- o multi interface HTTP CONNECT glitch
- o list FTP root directories when login dir is not root
- o no longer slows down when getting very many URLs on the same command line
- o lock share before decreasing dirty counter
- o no-body FTP requests on re-used connections
+ o 
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -69,26 +23,15 @@ This release includes the following known bugs:
 
 Other curl-related news:
 
- o PycURL 7.16.2.1 was released: http://pycurl.sf.net/
- o TclCurl 7.16.2 was released:
-   http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/tclcurl/english/
+ o 
 
 New curl mirrors:
 
- o http://curl.spegulo.be is a new mirror in Belgium
- o http://curl.piotrkosoft.net is a new mirror in Poland
- o http://curl.smudge-it.net is a new mirror in St Louis, MO, USA
- o http://curl.askapache.com is a new mirror in Indiana, USA
+ o 
 
 This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
- Song Ma, Dan Fandrich, Yang Tse, Jay Austin, Robert Iakobashvil,
- James Housley, Daniel Black, Steve Little, Sonia Subramanian, Peter O'Gorman,
- Frank Hempel, Michael Wallner, Jeff Pohlmeyer, Tobias Rundström,
- Anders Gustafsson, James Bursa, Kristian Gunstone, Feng Tu,
- Andre Guibert de Bruet, Rob Crittenden, Rich Rauenzahn, Tom Regner,
- Dave Vasilevsky, Shmulik Regev, Robson Braga Araujo, Adam Piggott,
- Gerrit Bruchhäuser
+ 
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/include/curl/curlver.h b/include/curl/curlver.h
index 382b8d420..318628bd2 100644
--- a/include/curl/curlver.h
+++ b/include/curl/curlver.h
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
    defines: */
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR 7
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_MINOR 16
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH 3
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH 4
 
 /* This is the numeric version of the libcurl version number, meant for easier
    parsing and comparions by programs. The LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM define will
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
    and it is always a greater number in a more recent release. It makes
    comparisons with greater than and less than work.
 */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x071003
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x071004
 
 /*
  * This is the date and time when the full source package was created. The