diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 880991e..06f42ad 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-libva NEWS -- summary of user visible changes.  2016-06-xx
+libva NEWS -- summary of user visible changes.  2016-06-21
 Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Intel Corporation
 
-Version 1.7.1 - DD.Jun.2016
+Version 1.7.1 - 21.Jun.2016
 * Bump VA API version to 0.39.2
 * API: add support for VP9 8bit encode
 * API: add support for low power/high performance encode
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fb659b0..b99882d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 m4_define([libva_major_version], [m4_eval(va_api_major_version + 1)])
 m4_define([libva_minor_version], [m4_eval(va_api_minor_version - 32)])
 m4_define([libva_micro_version], [1])
-m4_define([libva_pre_version],   [1])
+m4_define([libva_pre_version],   [0])
 
 m4_define([libva_version],
           [libva_major_version.libva_minor_version.libva_micro_version])