diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ac93fdb..08c895b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+Daniel (14 April 2002)
+- Dirk Manske brought a fix that makes libcurl strip off white spaces from the
+  beginning of cookie contents.
+
+- Had to patch include/curl/curl.h since MSVC doesn't set the __STDC__ define.
+  Moonesamy pointed out the problem, Bjorn Reese the solution.
+
+Version 7.9.6-pre5
+
 Daniel (12 April 2002)
 - Fixed the TIMER_CONNECT to be more accurate for FTP transfers. Previously
   FTP transfers got the "connect done" time set after the initial FTP commands
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index a621775..08ee4cb 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@
 void curl_global_cleanup(void);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.9.6-pre5"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.9.6"
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070906
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index f10a634..64f6e5e 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.9.6-pre5"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.9.6"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "