diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 115152d..4a31681 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ UPower Release Notes
 
 1. Write NEWS entries for UPower in the same format as usual.
 
-git shortlog UPOWER_0_9_5.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new
+git shortlog UPOWER_0_9_6.. | grep -i -v trivial | grep -v Merge > NEWS.new
 
-Version 0.9.6
-~~~~~~~~~~~
+Version 0.9.7
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Released: 2010-xx-xx
 
 Translations:
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ Bugfixes:
 
 2. Commit changes to git:
 
-git commit -a -m "Released UPower 0.9.6"
-git tag -s -f -m "Released UPower 0.9.6" UPOWER_0_9_6
+git commit -a -m "Released UPower 0.9.7"
+git tag -s -f -m "Released UPower 0.9.7" UPOWER_0_9_7
 <wait>
 git push --tags
 git push
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 44ba7fc..59fce9d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 m4_define([up_major_version], [0])
 m4_define([up_minor_version], [9])
-m4_define([up_micro_version], [6])
+m4_define([up_micro_version], [7])
 m4_define([up_version],
           [up_major_version.up_minor_version.up_micro_version])