bumped version to 2.7
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 506bf20..9938f0a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,41 @@
+== 29 Apr 2018 ==
+gperftools 2.7 is out!
+
+Few people contributed minor, but important fixes since rc.
+
+Changes:
+
+* bug in span stats printing introduced by new scalable page heap
+  change was fixed.
+
+* Christoph Müllner has contributed couple warnings fixes and initial
+  support for aarch64_ilp32 architecture.
+
+* Ben Dang contributed documentation fix for heap checker.
+
+* Fabrice Fontaine contributed fixed for linking benchmarks with
+  --disable-static.
+
+* Holy Wu has added sized deallocation unit tests.
+
+* Holy Wu has enabled support of sized deallocation (c++14) on recent
+  MSVC.
+
+* Holy Wu has fixed MSVC build in WIN32_OVERRIDE_ALLOCATORS mode. This
+  closed issue #716.
+
+* Holy Wu has contributed cleanup of config.h used on windows.
+
+* Mao Huang has contributed couple simple tcmalloc changes from
+  chromium code base. Making our tcmalloc forks a tiny bit closer.
+
+* issue #946 that caused compilation failures on some Linux clang
+  installations has been fixed. Much thanks to github user htuch for
+  helping to diagnose issue and proposing a fix.
+
+* Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho has contributed build-time fix for
+  PPC (for problem introduced in one of commits since RC).
+
 == 18 Mar 2018 ==
 gperftools 2.7rc is out!
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 62fb344..497103e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
 # make sure we're interpreted by some minimal autoconf
 AC_PREREQ([2.59])
 
-AC_INIT([gperftools],[2.6.90],[gperftools@googlegroups.com])
+AC_INIT([gperftools],[2.7],[gperftools@googlegroups.com])
 # Update this value for every release!  (A:B:C will map to foo.so.(A-C).C.B)
 # http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html
-TCMALLOC_SO_VERSION=9:2:5
-PROFILER_SO_VERSION=4:17:4
+TCMALLOC_SO_VERSION=9:3:5
+PROFILER_SO_VERSION=4:18:4
 
 AC_SUBST(TCMALLOC_SO_VERSION)
 AC_SUBST(PROFILER_SO_VERSION)
diff --git a/src/windows/config.h b/src/windows/config.h
index 0b5630d..e860bc3 100644
--- a/src/windows/config.h
+++ b/src/windows/config.h
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
 #define PACKAGE_NAME "gperftools"
 
 /* Define to the full name and version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_STRING "gperftools 2.6.90"
+#define PACKAGE_STRING "gperftools 2.7"
 
 /* Define to the one symbol short name of this package. */
 #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "gperftools"
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
 #define PACKAGE_URL ""
 
 /* Define to the version of this package. */
-#define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.6.90"
+#define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.7"
 
 /* How to access the PC from a struct ucontext */
 /* #undef PC_FROM_UCONTEXT */
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@
 /* #undef TCMALLOC_ALIGN_8BYTES */
 
 /* Version number of package */
-#define VERSION "2.6.90"
+#define VERSION "2.7"
 
 /* C99 says: define this to get the PRI... macros from stdint.h */
 #ifndef __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
diff --git a/src/windows/gperftools/tcmalloc.h b/src/windows/gperftools/tcmalloc.h
index b9c71e9..46fb4ea 100644
--- a/src/windows/gperftools/tcmalloc.h
+++ b/src/windows/gperftools/tcmalloc.h
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@
 
 /* Define the version number so folks can check against it */
 #define TC_VERSION_MAJOR  2
-#define TC_VERSION_MINOR  6
-#define TC_VERSION_PATCH  ".90"
-#define TC_VERSION_STRING "gperftools 2.6.90"
+#define TC_VERSION_MINOR  7
+#define TC_VERSION_PATCH  ""
+#define TC_VERSION_STRING "gperftools 2.7"
 
 #ifndef PERFTOOLS_NOTHROW