diff --git a/Doc/changelog.docu b/Doc/changelog.docu
index 5feaf07f..88dc44a5 100644
--- a/Doc/changelog.docu
+++ b/Doc/changelog.docu
@@ -6,6 +6,19 @@
 
 <!-- --------------------------------------------------------------------- -->
 
+
+<tr valign=top><td><b>7.1</b> (?/?/?)</td><td>
+
+
+<b>General</b>
+<ul>
+<li>Remove old qmake project files. Unmaintained for a very long time</li>
+</ul>
+
+</tr>
+
+
+
 <tr valign=top><td><b>7.0</b> (2018/04/19)</td><td>
 
 <b>Breaking changes</b>
@@ -62,7 +75,7 @@
 <li>BaseExporter: Added accessor functions for HalfEdgeHandles and faceTexCoords to base exporter and exporter template.</li>
 <li>OBJ Writer: Fail if vertex color export was requested (Thanks to Manuel Massing)</li>
 <li>OBJ Writer: Added functionality to store FaceTexCoords to objwriter</li>
-<li>OBJ Writer: Applied fix for bad or missing vertex tex coords (Thanks to Gero Müller for the patch)</li>>
+<li>OBJ Writer: Applied fix for bad or missing vertex tex coords (Thanks to Gero Müller for the patch)</li>
 <li>OBJ Writer: Fix vertex texture coordinates export in OBJ writer</li>
 <li>OBJ Loader: range check for vertex colors and normals in OBJ loader</li>
 <li>OBJ Loader: fixed handling of negative indices in OBJ loader</li>
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 7028d24e..965f7b0e 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-VERSION=7.0
+VERSION=7.1
 MAJOR=7
-MINOR=0
+MINOR=1
 PATCH=0
 ID=OPENMESH
 
diff --git a/cmake/FindOpenMesh.cmake b/cmake/FindOpenMesh.cmake
index 693b1517..5893b084 100644
--- a/cmake/FindOpenMesh.cmake
+++ b/cmake/FindOpenMesh.cmake
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ IF (NOT OPENMESH_FOUND)
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/OpenMesh/src/OpenMesh"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/libs_required/OpenMesh/src/OpenMesh"
     "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/../OpenMesh/src/OpenMesh"
+    "C:/Program Files/OpenMesh 7.1"
     "C:/Program Files/OpenMesh 7.0"
     "C:/Program Files/OpenMesh 6.3"
     "C:/Program Files/OpenMesh 6.2"
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ IF (NOT OPENMESH_FOUND)
     "C:/Program Files/OpenMesh 2.4.1"
     "C:/Program Files/OpenMesh 2.4"
     "C:/Program Files/OpenMesh 2.0/include"
+    "C:/libs/OpenMesh 7.1"
     "C:/libs/OpenMesh 7.0"
     "C:/libs/OpenMesh 6.3"
     "C:/libs/OpenMesh 6.2"
diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/System/config.h b/src/OpenMesh/Core/System/config.h
index e0d436e3..65c0b3e2 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/System/config.h
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/System/config.h
@@ -65,11 +65,7 @@
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-#define OM_VERSION 0x70000
-//#define OM_VERSION 0x60300
-
-// only defined, if it is a beta version
-//#define OM_VERSION_BETA 4
+#define OM_VERSION 0x70100
 
 #define OM_GET_VER ((OM_VERSION & 0xf0000) >> 16)
 #define OM_GET_MAJ ((OM_VERSION & 0x0ff00) >> 8)