diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 93f8c6dc62f8302e54daf2f53cefe7838bc42e83..cfba051bcb139fa0c5453fa039cd72fec9ea129b 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Curl and libcurl 7.17.1
  Number of public functions in libcurl:    55
  Amount of public web site mirrors:        42
  Number of known libcurl bindings:         36
- Number of contributors:                   572
+ Number of contributors:                   588
 
 This release includes the following changes: