diff --git a/History.txt b/History.txt
index bf72447..581989e 100644
--- a/History.txt
+++ b/History.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+== 0.7.2 / 2012-10-07
+
+* Many fixes to the regular expressions used for emphasis, contributed by [[http://github.com/vonavi][vonavi]]
+* Bug fix for when a table starts with a headline, thanks to [[http://github/til][til]]
+* Asterisk can be used for definition lists too
+* Use text lexer as default option for Pygments and Coderay when no language is specified
+
 == 0.7.1 / 2012-08-04
 
 * Make source code blocks from lisp dialects use Pygments scheme lexer
diff --git a/announcement.txt b/announcement.txt
index 804b311..9843a1c 100644
--- a/announcement.txt
+++ b/announcement.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-org-ruby version 0.7.1
+org-ruby version 0.7.2
     by Brian Dewey
     http://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby
 
@@ -9,5 +9,8 @@ significant thing this library does today is convert org-mode files to
 HTML or textile. 
 
 == CHANGES
-* Make source code blocks from lisp dialects use Pygments scheme lexer
-* Bugfix: Make Coderay fallback to text lexer when unsupported lang is set
+
+* Many fixes to the regular expressions used for emphasis, contributed by [[http://github.com/vonavi][vonavi]]
+* Bug fix for when a table starts with a headline, thanks to [[http://github/til][til]]
+* Asterisk can be used for definition lists too
+* Use text lexer as default option for Pygments and Coderay when no language is specified
diff --git a/lib/org-ruby.rb b/lib/org-ruby.rb
index 8b48721..716afe6 100644
--- a/lib/org-ruby.rb
+++ b/lib/org-ruby.rb
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 module OrgRuby
 
   # :stopdoc:
-  VERSION = '0.7.1'
+  VERSION = '0.7.2'
   LIBPATH = ::File.expand_path(::File.dirname(__FILE__)) + ::File::SEPARATOR
   PATH = ::File.dirname(LIBPATH) + ::File::SEPARATOR
   # :startdoc:
diff --git a/org-ruby.gemspec b/org-ruby.gemspec
index 64611b4..de7e4e5 100644
--- a/org-ruby.gemspec
+++ b/org-ruby.gemspec
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = "org-ruby"
-  s.version = "0.7.1"
+  s.version = "0.7.2"
+
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["Brian Dewey"]
-  s.date = "2012-07-08"
+  s.date = "2012-10-07"
   s.description = "This gem contains Ruby routines for parsing org-mode files.The most\nsignificant thing this library does today is convert org-mode files to\nHTML or textile. Currently, you cannot do much to customize the\nconversion. The supplied textile conversion is optimized for\nextracting \"content\" from the orgfile as opposed to \"metadata.\" "
   s.email = "bdewey@gmail.com"
   s.executables = ["org-ruby"]