diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index 66bded99dc8..d2049ea8514 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Tue Oct 15 12:40:41 1996  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>
 
+	* VERSION: Bump for new relocation.
+
 	* hosts/i386bsd.h: If NBPG is not defined, define it as
 	PAGE_SIZE, for recent versions of FreeBSD.
 
diff --git a/bfd/VERSION b/bfd/VERSION
index a24cb840e75..c3be8ac6832 100644
--- a/bfd/VERSION
+++ b/bfd/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-cygnus-2.7.1
+cygnus-2.7.2