diff --git a/README b/README
index c10a8f447..021c83715 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -35,7 +35,25 @@ before calling SSL_new();  Though it's not recommended.
 *** end Notes ***
 
 
-CyaSSL Release 2.x.x (TBA)
+CyaSSL Release 2.7.0 (6/17/2013)
+
+Release 2.7.0 CyaSSL has bug fixes and new features including:
+- SNI support for client and server
+- KEIL MDK-ARM projects
+- Wildcard check to domain name match, and Subject altnames are checked too
+- Better error messages for certificate verification errors
+- Ability to discsard sessoin during handshake verify
+- More consistent error returns across all APIs
+- Ability to unlaod CAs at the CTX or CertManager levle
+- Authority subject id support for Certificate matching
+- Persistent session cache functionality
+- Persistent CA cache functionality
+- Client session table lookups to push serverID table to library level
+- Camellia support to sniffer
+- User controlable settings for DTLS timeout values
+- Sniffer fixes for caching long lived sessions
+- DTLS reliability enhancments for the handshake
+- Better ThreadX support
 
 When compiling with Mingw, libtool may give the following warning due to
 path conversion errors:
@@ -46,6 +64,9 @@ libtool: link: Continuing, but uninstalled executables may not work.
 If so, examples and testsuite will have problems when run, showing an
 error while loading shared libraries. To resolve, please run "make install".
 
+The CyaSSL manual is available at:
+http://www.yassl.com/documentation/CyaSSL-Manual.pdf.  For build instructions 
+and comments about the new features please check the manual.
 
 
 ************** CyaSSL Release 2.6.0 (04/15/2013)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 74fea8f44..17e3f4871 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 #
 
-AC_INIT([cyassl],[2.6.2],[http://www.yassl.com])
+AC_INIT([cyassl],[2.7.0],[http://www.yassl.com])
 
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.in])dnl Keep filename to 8.3 for MS-DOS.
 
 
 #shared library versioning
-CYASSL_LIBRARY_VERSION=5:0:0
+CYASSL_LIBRARY_VERSION=5:1:0
 #                      | | |
 #               +------+ | +---+
 #               |        |     |
diff --git a/cyassl/version.h b/cyassl/version.h
index e57078d4a..901f96b36 100644
--- a/cyassl/version.h
+++ b/cyassl/version.h
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
-#define LIBCYASSL_VERSION_STRING "2.6.2"
-#define LIBCYASSL_VERSION_HEX 0x02006002
+#define LIBCYASSL_VERSION_STRING "2.7.0"
+#define LIBCYASSL_VERSION_HEX 0x02007000
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }