Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip => Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.eml | 8 +++++++-
 Makefile.PL                                                            | 5 +++--

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.eml
rename from Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
rename to Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.eml
index ebb0a22313a3c5cc16665919cec46903fc0e5284..45fd0fa62f352bddd59a582756910d505668b70f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.eml
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
+From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
 To: meta@public-inbox.org
-Subject: [WIP] public-inbox 1.7.0
+Subject: [ANNOUNCE] public-inbox 1.7.0
+Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 07:52:00 +0000
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+Message-ID: <2021-11-04-public-inbox-1.7.0-finally-rele@sed>
 Content-Disposition: inline
 
 Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
+
+Special thanks to Konstantin Ryabitsev and Kyle Meyer for
+numerous bug reports and documentation help.
 
 * general changes
 
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index fffe30e93181e86cac02c0809c6dab3f8c78f1e5..c0aef4880baf9c8481d21d1e3c7d879321b40e9f 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ my $v = {};
 my $t = {};
 
 # do not sort
-my @RELEASES = qw(v1.6.1 v1.6.0 v1.5.0 v1.4.0 v1.3.0 v1.2.0 v1.1.0-pre1 v1.0.0);
+my @RELEASES = qw(v1.7.0 v1.6.1 v1.6.0 v1.5.0 v1.4.0 v1.3.0 v1.2.0
+	v1.1.0-pre1 v1.0.0);
 
 $v->{news_deps} = [ map { "Documentation/RelNotes/$_.eml" } @RELEASES ];
 $v->{txt} = [ qw(INSTALL README COPYING TODO HACKING) ];
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ WriteMakefile(
 	NAME => 'PublicInbox', # n.b. camel-case is not our choice
 
 	# XXX drop "PENDING" in .pod before updating this!
-	VERSION => '1.7.0.PENDING',
+	VERSION => '1.7.0',
 
 	AUTHOR => 'Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>',
 	ABSTRACT => 'public-inbox server infrastructure',