diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 07fe849cc..f83500845 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
                                History of Changes
 
+Version 7.7
+
 Daniel (22 March 2001)
 - The configure script now fails with an error message if gethostbyname_r() is
   detected but it couldn't figure out how to invoke it (what amount of
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 29f77db5a..9d9c7a7ff 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ char *curl_escape(char *string, int length);
 char *curl_unescape(char *string, int length);
 
 /* This is the version number */
-#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7-beta5"
+#define LIBCURL_VERSION "7.7"
 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x070700
 
 /* linked-list structure for the CURLOPT_QUOTE option (and other) */
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 0c024d57a..c95f678b9 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #define CURL_NAME "curl"
-#define CURL_VERSION "7.7-beta5"
+#define CURL_VERSION "7.7"
 #define CURL_ID CURL_NAME " " CURL_VERSION " (" OS ") "