diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2ef2e8cf..bf407d4c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ncmpcpp 0.7.4 (????-??-??)
+ncmpcpp 0.7.4 (2016-04-17)
 * Fetching lyrics from lyricwiki.org was fixed.
 * Configure script now continues without errors if ICU library was not found.
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0c312098..1f638af2 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_INIT(configure.ac)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ncmpcpp, 0.7.4_dev)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ncmpcpp, 0.7.4)
 
 m4_include([m4/ax_lib_readline.m4])