diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 72e3ed5..813c4fa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 Wicd 1.7 Series
 ---------------
 
+1.7.2.1:
+	Minor Changes:
+	- Fix typo in wicd-curses, which made it crash with UTF-8 locales.
+
 1.7.2:
 	Major Changes:
 	- Fix local privilege escalation when setting configuration properties
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5cfa741..ce5bca2 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from glob import glob
 
 # Be sure to keep this updated!
 # VERSIONNUMBER
-VERSION_NUM = '1.7.2'
+VERSION_NUM = '1.7.2.1'
 # REVISION_NUM is automatically updated
 REVISION_NUM = 'unknown'
 CURSES_REVNO = 'uimod'