diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ebdeb99..b3bfb53 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+* fuse-overlayfs-1.7.1
+
+- set FUSE_CAP_POSIX_ACL only when it is supported by FUSE.
+- treat statx failure with EINVAL as ENOSYS, so that the fallback
+  is attempted.
+
 * fuse-overlayfs-1.7
 
 - fix read xattrs for device files
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 56309b1..606832d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.8-dev], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
+AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.7.1], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([main.c])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])