diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 2524edc543b300cce3aa86e598302854c4a6857b..734534d5e8b232e664790a39976dc9c807e65e3c 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl $Id$
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_INIT(lib/urldata.h)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h src/config.h)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(curl,"7.1.1")
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(curl,"7.2")
 AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
 
 dnl