diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9a9443877..76a788566 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+Daniel (3 October 2001)
+- Georg Huettenegger once again made an effort beyond the call of duty and not
+  only improved the curl_formadd() function, but also took care of adjusting
+  the curl command line client to use this new function instead of the
+  obsoleted curl_formparse.
+
 Daniel (2 October 2001)
 - Major fix in how libcurl does TCP connects. It now does non-blocking
   connects to enable good timeouts without signals, and it now tries all IP
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index edeab1a75..a5540e43a 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.9"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.9.1-pre1"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "