diff --git a/IPython/core/release.py b/IPython/core/release.py
index 4a5088acd13..548e69843de 100644
--- a/IPython/core/release.py
+++ b/IPython/core/release.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 _version_patch = 0
 _version_extra = '.dev'
 # _version_extra = 'b1'
-# _version_extra = ''  # Uncomment this for full releases
+_version_extra = ''  # Uncomment this for full releases
 
 # Construct full version string from these.
 _ver = [_version_major, _version_minor, _version_patch]
diff --git a/docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-7.rst b/docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-7.rst
index 0742b238027..b59c5f014d3 100644
--- a/docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-7.rst
+++ b/docs/source/whatsnew/github-stats-7.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,34 @@
 Issues closed in the 7.x development cycle
 ==========================================
 
+Issues closed in 7.2
+--------------------
+GitHub stats for 2018/10/28 - 2018/11/29 (tag: 7.1.1)
+
+These lists are automatically generated, and may be incomplete or contain duplicates.
+
+We closed 2 issues and merged 18 pull requests.
+The full list can be seen `on GitHub <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues?q=milestone%3A7.2>`__
+
+The following 16 authors contributed 95 commits.
+
+* Antony Lee
+* Benjamin Ragan-Kelley
+* CarsonGSmith
+* Chris Mentzel
+* Christopher Brown
+* Dan Allan
+* Elliott Morgan Jobson
+* is-this-valid
+* kd2718
+* Kevin Hess
+* Martin Bergtholdt
+* Matthias Bussonnier
+* Nicholas Bollweg
+* Pavel Karateev
+* Philipp A
+* Reuben Morais
+
 Issues closed in 7.1
 --------------------