diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4d64beb..e8b76ec 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Major changes in 0.7.0
+======================
+* Add smartcard channel
+
+Major changes in 0.6.4 (not yet released):
+==========================================
+* Make controller client protocol menu text UTF8 rather then 16 bit unicode
+
 Major changes in 0.6.3:
 =======================
 * Add support for copy and paste to the agent protocol
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3ee346a..a013977 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.57])
 
 m4_define([SPICE_MAJOR], 0)
-m4_define([SPICE_MINOR], 6)
-m4_define([SPICE_MICRO], 3)
+m4_define([SPICE_MINOR], 7)
+m4_define([SPICE_MICRO], 0)
 
 AC_INIT(spice-protocol, [SPICE_MAJOR.SPICE_MINOR.SPICE_MICRO], [], spice-protocol)