diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index cecc035ff5b..2dc01e5d816 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 = ActiveMerchant CHANGELOG
 
+== Version 1.7.1 (July 28, 2010)
+
 * Pull in only the necessary components of Active Support. Enables use of ActiveMerchant with Rails 3 [railsjedi]
 
 == Version 1.7.0 (July 9, 2010)
diff --git a/activemerchant.gemspec b/activemerchant.gemspec
index 4dc690f809f..11bbd2121a1 100644
--- a/activemerchant.gemspec
+++ b/activemerchant.gemspec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.platform     = Gem::Platform::RUBY
   s.name         = 'activemerchant'
-  s.version      = '1.7.0'
+  s.version      = '1.7.1'
   s.summary      = 'Framework and tools for dealing with credit card transactions.'
   s.description  = 'Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library used in and sponsored by Shopify. It is written by Tobias Luetke, Cody Fauser, and contributors. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.'
 
diff --git a/lib/active_merchant/version.rb b/lib/active_merchant/version.rb
index 567d6ec7fc9..1a003246f2e 100644
--- a/lib/active_merchant/version.rb
+++ b/lib/active_merchant/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module ActiveMerchant
-  VERSION = "1.7.0"
+  VERSION = "1.7.1"
 end