diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 7dc83e24..c50b8419 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+### 0.7.4 (2017-05-25) ###
+* Fix regression in automatic --balance option in cooler zoomify
+* Fix special cases where cooler.io.create and append would not work with certain inputs
+
 ### 0.7.3 (2017-05-22) ###
 * Added function to print higlass zoom resolutions for a given genome and base resolution.
 
diff --git a/cooler/__init__.py b/cooler/__init__.py
index e6a47f83..d6488d72 100644
--- a/cooler/__init__.py
+++ b/cooler/__init__.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 """
 import logging
-__version__ = '0.7.4-dev'
+__version__ = '0.7.4'
 __format_version__ = 2
 _logger = None