diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 815a17343d..09446b34f8 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+2.7.0 (2015-05-03)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+This is the first release that follows our new release process. For more, see
+[our documentation](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/community/release-process/).
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+- Updated urllib3 to 1.10.4, resolving several bugs involving chunked transfer
+  encoding and response framing.
+
 2.6.2 (2015-04-23)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/requests/__init__.py b/requests/__init__.py
index 46116bea69..4bca66e73c 100644
--- a/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/__init__.py
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 """
 
 __title__ = 'requests'
-__version__ = '2.6.2'
-__build__ = 0x020602
+__version__ = '2.7.0'
+__build__ = 0x020700
 __author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
 __license__ = 'Apache 2.0'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015 Kenneth Reitz'