diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 13d5f0c5..b1b8ddf2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ncmpcpp-0.7 (????-??-??)
+ncmpcpp-0.7_beta1 (2015-11-04)
 
 * Visualizer has now support for multiple colors (visualizer_color configuration variable takes the list of colors to be used).
 * Visualizer has now support for two more modes: sound wave filled and sound ellipse.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8aae988d..4640f433 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 AC_INIT(configure.ac)
 
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ncmpcpp, 0.7_dev)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ncmpcpp, 0.7_beta1)
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)