Version 1.7.1

Release notes in README.md, version bump in configure.ac

README.md

@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ For patch submission instructions, see:
 
   https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
 
+## Release 1.7.1
+
+This is a bug fix release, including a security fix for
+CVE-2021-31535, nls and documentation corrections.
+
+ * Reject string longer than USHRT_MAX before sending them on the wire
+ * Fix out-of-bound access in KeySymToUcs4()
+ * nls: allow composing all breved letters also with a lowercase "u"
+ * nls: add 'C.utf8' as an alias for 'en_US.UTF-8'
+ * Nroff code fixes
+ * Comments fixes
 
 ## Release 1.7.0
 

configure.ac

 
 # Initialize Autoconf
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
-AC_INIT([libX11], [1.7.0],
+AC_INIT([libX11], [1.7.1],
         [https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libx11/issues], [libX11])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Makefile.am])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([src/config.h include/X11/XlibConf.h])