diff --git a/RELEASENOTES.txt b/RELEASENOTES.rst
similarity index 96%
rename from RELEASENOTES.txt
rename to RELEASENOTES.rst
index 3981fd7439..1fad5655a0 100644
--- a/RELEASENOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASENOTES.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+================================================================================
+1.7.2
+================================================================================
+
+Bug Fixes
+=========
+
+-  Don't write LAS GeoTIFF VLRs if they contain no data (#1914)
+-  Centroid computation should use doubles instead of floats (#1919)
+-  Fixup `-Werror`-related warnings (#1915)
+-  Fix linking to libdl for dlopen (#1902)
+-  BPF doesn't build with ZLIB (#1929)
+-  Packaging improvements (#1942, #1976, #1980, #1943)
+-  Explicitly allow underscores and capital letters in stage names
+   (implicit pre-1.7, hardened to disallow in 1.7.1) (#1923)
+-  Warn about auto scaling ``writers.las`` in stream mode (#1940)
+-  Handle cr/lf endings in Windows for ``readers.text`` (#1939 ) 
+-  Make ``pdal-config`` owner writeable for `Conda packaging <https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/2824#issuecomment-382776831>`__ (#1964) 
+-  Allow replacement of artifacts (#1994)
+-  Fixed problem with UTM calculation for southern zones (#1989)
+-  Fixed issue with kernel plugins failing to load (#1971)
+-  Fixed problem where ``filters.ferry`` would create dimensions with
+   bad types (#1930)
+
 ================================================================================
 1.7.0
 ================================================================================
diff --git a/package.sh b/package.sh
index e8a6fae422..0ea07ef223 100755
--- a/package.sh
+++ b/package.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # Build PDAL package
 # ./package.sh
 
+SUFFIX=$1
 
 GITSHA="$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
 
@@ -39,11 +40,12 @@ mkdir $OUTPUTDIR
 extensions=".tar.gz .tar.bz2"
 for ext in $extensions
 do
-
-
-    for filename in $(ls *$ext)
+    for name in $(ls *$ext)
     do
-
+        filename=${name/$PDAL_VERSION/$PDAL_VERSION$SUFFIX}
+        if [ $name != $filename ]
+            then mv $name $filename
+        fi
         `md5sum $filename > $filename.md5`
         `sha256sum $filename > $filename.sha256sum`
         `sha512sum $filename > $filename.sha512sum`