diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 8ca2509..e68cb79 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 # Changes
 
+
+## 0.7.1
+
+Release date: 2016-01-14
+
+* Fix auth fail with MySQL 5.1
+* Fix escaping unicode fails on Python 2
+
 ## 0.7
 
 Release date: 2016-01-10
 
-Notable changes:
-
 * Faster binary escaping
 * Add `"_binary" prefix` to string literal for binary types.
   binary types are: `bytearray` on Python 2, `bytes` and `bytearray` on Python 3.
diff --git a/pymysql/__init__.py b/pymysql/__init__.py
index 778be6e..fad5739 100644
--- a/pymysql/__init__.py
+++ b/pymysql/__init__.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ from .times import Date, Time, Timestamp, \
     DateFromTicks, TimeFromTicks, TimestampFromTicks
 
 
-VERSION = (0, 7, 0, None)
+VERSION = (0, 7, 1, None)
 threadsafety = 1
 apilevel = "2.0"
 paramstyle = "pyformat"