diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7ffa508d..03bd49ea 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 	copy (and edit) entries from ChangeLog.svn2cl
 
 
+	*** Newer changes - see https://github.com/latte-int/latte ***
+	
 2015-04-21 Brandon Dutra <bedutra@ucdavis.edu>
 
 	* updated the exception class and use
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5828b2db..979d738e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+Changes in release 1.7.5, 2018-09-10:
+
+ This is a portability release.
+
+ * Fix compilation errors for NTL version >= 9: don't depend on NTL_STD_CXX macro
+
+ * Fix runtime errors for NTL builds with NTL_RANGE_CHECK=on and for NTL version >= 11
+
+
+Changes in release 1.7.4, 2018-09-03:
+
+ This is a bug fix and portability release.
+
+ * Fix compile errors with clang.
+
+ * Make it an error, not a warning, when cddlib is not found at configure time.
+
+ * Make test suite pass when configured without 4ti2.
+
+ * Relax test for location of gmp.h, needed for Ubuntu
+
+
 Changes in release 1.7.3:
 
  * count and integrate commands now correctly return a non-zero error code on failure
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a1188de4..2c1949ff 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-AC_INIT(latte-int, 1.7.4)
+AC_INIT(latte-int, 1.7.5)
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([code/config.h:code/config.hin])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([gnu 1.11])  # Need 1.11 for parallel test harness in code/maple