diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
index a530f8b..a30117e 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-version = __version__ = "3.37.1.dev0"
+version = __version__ = "3.37.1"
 
 __all__ = ["version", "log", "configLogger"]
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 85bdfed..0ca3522 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+3.37.1 (released 2019-02-05)
+----------------------------
+
 - [varLib] ``load_masters()`` now actually assigns the fonts it loads to the
   source.font attributes.
 - [varLib] Fixed an MVAR table generation crash when sparse masters were
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index e58f3d6..2ffd2c1 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 3.37.1.dev0
+current_version = 3.37.1
 commit = True
 tag = False
 tag_name = {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3afcdee..f156705 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@
 
 setup(
 	name="fonttools",
-	version="3.37.1.dev0",
+	version="3.37.1",
 	description="Tools to manipulate font files",
 	author="Just van Rossum",
 	author_email="just@letterror.com",