diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a245127d4d7a..a806c2faca4d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6645,6 +6645,7 @@ First version running with Cassandra.
 
 [Back to TOC](#table-of-contents)
 
+[2.7.1]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/2.7.0...2.7.1
 [2.7.0]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/2.6.0...2.7.0
 [2.6.0]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/2.5.1...2.6.0
 [2.5.1]: https://github.com/Kong/kong/compare/2.5.0...2.5.1
diff --git a/kong-2.7.0-0.rockspec b/kong-2.7.1-0.rockspec
similarity index 99%
rename from kong-2.7.0-0.rockspec
rename to kong-2.7.1-0.rockspec
index 8d8050f9169e..b2553357b56f 100644
--- a/kong-2.7.0-0.rockspec
+++ b/kong-2.7.1-0.rockspec
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 package = "kong"
-version = "2.7.0-0"
+version = "2.7.1-0"
 rockspec_format = "3.0"
 supported_platforms = {"linux", "macosx"}
 source = {
   url = "git://github.com/Kong/kong",
-  tag = "2.7.0"
+  tag = "2.7.1"
 }
 description = {
   summary = "Kong is a scalable and customizable API Management Layer built on top of Nginx.",
diff --git a/kong/meta.lua b/kong/meta.lua
index d31f28eb9043..09aef3ec6314 100644
--- a/kong/meta.lua
+++ b/kong/meta.lua
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 local version = setmetatable({
   major = 2,
   minor = 7,
-  patch = 0,
+  patch = 1,
   --suffix = "rc.1"
 }, {
   -- our Makefile during certain releases adjusts this line. Any changes to