diff --git a/build/build.properties b/build/build.properties
index 01f2f01..aba450e 100644
--- a/build/build.properties
+++ b/build/build.properties
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 # Global defaults
 name=       Velocity
 project=    velocity
-version=    1.7-dev
+version=    1.7
 final.name= ${project}-${version}
 
 # compile switches
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1c35846..77a8e38 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
   <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
   <artifactId>velocity</artifactId>
-  <version>1.7-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.7</version>
 
   <name>Apache Velocity</name>
   <url>http://velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/</url>
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
   <distributionManagement>
     <site>
       <id>velocity.apache.org</id>
-      <url>scpexe://people.apache.org/www/velocity.apache.org/engine/devel/</url>
+      <url>scpexe://people.apache.org/www/velocity.apache.org/engine/releases/velocity-1.7</url>
     </site>
     <repository>
       <id>apache.releases</id>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index fee0a3a..4dcbfdf 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   </properties>
 
   <body>
-    <release version="1.7" date="In Subversion">
+    <release version="1.7" date="2010-11-20">
       <action type="fix" dev="cbrisson" issue="VELOCITY-785" due-to="Jarkko Viinamäki">
         Fixed quotes escaping so that doubling single quotes only works when enclosing quotes are single quotes
         (and same behaviour for double quotes)
diff --git a/xdocs/docs/index.xml b/xdocs/docs/index.xml
index db2a513..a04e78e 100644
--- a/xdocs/docs/index.xml
+++ b/xdocs/docs/index.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 
     <section name="Where do I get releases?" href="WheredoIgetreleases?">
 
-      <p> The current stable release version is version 1.6.4. </p>
+      <p> The current stable release version is version 1.7. </p>
 
       <p> The release distribution is available as a combined source/binary distribution in
         <code>tar.gz</code> and