diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c94b28e..7474726 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Release 0.7.2 (9 March, 2013)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Emergent bug fix: 0.7.0 and 0.7.1 give a wrong sign to TLEN. In addition,
+flagging `properly paired' also gets improved a little.
+
+(0.7.2: 9 March 2013, r351)
+
+
+
 Release 0.7.1 (8 March, 2013)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/bwa.1 b/bwa.1
index 3e92456..8e90848 100644
--- a/bwa.1
+++ b/bwa.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH bwa 1 "8 March 2013" "bwa-0.7.1" "Bioinformatics tools"
+.TH bwa 1 "9 March 2013" "bwa-0.7.2" "Bioinformatics tools"
 .SH NAME
 .PP
 bwa - Burrows-Wheeler Alignment Tool
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index a49bdf8..b0874f0 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #include "utils.h"
 
 #ifndef PACKAGE_VERSION
-#define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.7.1-r348-beta"
+#define PACKAGE_VERSION "0.7.2-r351"
 #endif
 
 int bwa_fa2pac(int argc, char *argv[]);