diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 117ca094..2af0fa01 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 
+* Version 0.7.1 (1.0 RC2)
+ - This is the second release candidate of Sodium 1.0. Minor
+compilation, readability and portability changes have been made and the
+test suite was improved, but the API is the same as the previous release
+candidate.
+
 * Version 0.7.0 (1.0 RC1)
  - Allocating memory to store sensitive data can now be done using
 sodium_malloc() and sodium_allocarray(). These functions add guard
diff --git a/builds/msvc/version.h b/builds/msvc/version.h
index 031b9c09..18725a3e 100644
--- a/builds/msvc/version.h
+++ b/builds/msvc/version.h
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 
 #include "export.h"
 
-#define SODIUM_VERSION_STRING "0.7.0"
+#define SODIUM_VERSION_STRING "0.7.1"
 
 #define SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MAJOR 7
-#define SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MINOR 0
+#define SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MINOR 1
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e1c6c1a7..fd583b19 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
-AC_INIT([libsodium],[0.7.0],
+AC_INIT([libsodium],[0.7.1],
   [https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/issues],
   [libsodium],
   [https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium])
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ ISODATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
 AC_SUBST(ISODATE)
 
 SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MAJOR=7
-SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MINOR=0
+SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MINOR=1
 DLL_VERSION=6
-SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION=13:0:0
+SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION=13:1:0
 #                       | | |
 #                +------+ | +---+
 #                |        |     |
diff --git a/msvc-scripts/process.bat b/msvc-scripts/process.bat
index 28c6349c..f4e5cdd4 100755
--- a/msvc-scripts/process.bat
+++ b/msvc-scripts/process.bat
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-cscript msvc-scripts/rep.vbs //Nologo s/@VERSION@/0.7.0/ < src\libsodium\include\sodium\version.h.in > tmp
+cscript msvc-scripts/rep.vbs //Nologo s/@VERSION@/0.7.1/ < src\libsodium\include\sodium\version.h.in > tmp
 cscript msvc-scripts/rep.vbs //Nologo s/@SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MAJOR@/7/ < tmp > tmp2
-cscript msvc-scripts/rep.vbs //Nologo s/@SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MINOR@/0/ < tmp2 > src\libsodium\include\sodium\version.h
+cscript msvc-scripts/rep.vbs //Nologo s/@SODIUM_LIBRARY_VERSION_MINOR@/1/ < tmp2 > src\libsodium\include\sodium\version.h
 del tmp tmp2