diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 803428bd1..d66811a83 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ver 0.16.7 (2011/??/??)
+ver 0.16.7 (2012/02/04)
 * input:
   - ffmpeg: support libavformat 0.7
 * decoder:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index de4daf4b0..d3f4b393d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.60)
-AC_INIT(mpd, 0.16.7~git, musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net)
+AC_INIT(mpd, 0.16.7, musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.c])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign 1.10 dist-bzip2 subdir-objects])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)