diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 30567982d400cdc4268b99f282c2f2f06b88f7d3..8702e21db97f92e13bd99ae5b1355c4f85c70505 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+Version 7.7.1-beta1
+
 Daniel (26 March 2001)
 - Mohamed Lrhazi reported problems with 7.6.1 and persistant HTTP/1.0
   connections (when the server replied a Connection: Keep-Alive) and this
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 9d9c7a7ff6678c6fa60675a68d2a421f029d167c..8b4c75be3b35f115e228cd297d98a7ac3b3e9709 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -481,8 +481,8 @@ char *curl_escape(char *string, int length);
 char *curl_unescape(char *string, int length);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7"
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070700
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7.1-beta1"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070701
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
 struct curl_slist {