diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
index fed9c73f08dc68cb3f143b468862f1ebb1439a4b..58100bf04e1c3b7e7f4440eb3df9696b3a5343df 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Compatibility Notes
 	GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no
 	export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT
 
-   to disable this behaviour (if you want your users to explain their
+   to disable this behavior (if you want your users to explain their
    merge commits, you do not have to do anything).  Alternatively, you
    can give the "--no-edit" option to individual invocations of the
    "git merge" command if you know everybody who uses your script has
@@ -29,15 +29,16 @@ Compatibility Notes
    while and were deprecated in mid 2008 (v1.6.0).  When you give these
    options to "git am", it will now warn and ask you not to use them.
 
- * When you do not tell which branches and tags to push to the "git push"
-   command in any way, the command used "matching refs" rule to update
-   remote branches and tags with branches and tags with the same name you
-   locally have.  In future versions of Git, this will change to push out
-   only your current branch according to either the "upstream" or the
-   "current" rule.  Although "upstream" may be more powerful once the
-   user understands Git better, the semantics "current" gives is
-   simpler and easier to understand for beginners and may be a safer
-   and better default option, but we haven't decided yet.
+ * When you do not tell which branches and tags to push to the "git
+   push" command in any way, the command used "matching refs" rule to
+   update remote branches and tags with branches and tags with the
+   same name you locally have.  In future versions of Git, this will
+   change to push out only your current branch according to either the
+   "upstream" or the "current" rule.  Although "upstream" may be more
+   powerful once the user understands Git better, the semantics
+   "current" gives is simpler and easier to understand for beginners
+   and may be a safer and better default option.  We haven't decided
+   yet which one to switch to.
 
 
 Updates since v1.7.9
@@ -139,6 +140,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * Project search in "gitweb" shows the substring that matched in the
    project name and description highlighted.
 
+ * HTTP transport learned to authenticate with a proxy if needed.
+
  * A new script "diffall" is added to contrib/; it drives an
    external tool to perform a directory diff of two Git revisions
    in one go, unlike "difftool" that compares one file at a time.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index ae34e8a7f6b34d81550f0adf60098b075e8b7757..ca85d1d210dc6015fef205e543f34b6f25733fca 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ unreleased) version of git, that is available from 'master'
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
+* link:v1.7.10/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.10]
+
+* release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.10.txt[1.7.10].
+
 * link:v1.7.9.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.9.6]
 
 * release notes for
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 57658cd953354b004b02c45cf37d716d14e36b73..1f55d3e90027a0e130b5a2c95f01894b15cf2c2b 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.10-rc4
+DEF_VER=v1.7.10
 
 LF='
 '