diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md
index 6c99054b1f..007a7cd218 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.md
+++ b/AUTHORS.md
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ possible:
  * Aldo Stracquadanio
  * Alejandro Gómez
  * Alessandro Lacava
+ * Alexandru Nedelcu
  * Alexander Semenov
  * Alexey Levan
  * Alissa Pajer
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ possible:
  * Brian McKenna
  * Cody Allen
  * Colt Frederickson
+ * Csongor Kiss
  * Dale Wijnand
  * Daniel Spiewak
  * Dave Gurnell
@@ -53,11 +55,13 @@ possible:
  * Eugene Yokota
  * Feynman Liang
  * Frank S. Thomas
+ * Giulio De Luise
  * Hamish Dickson
  * Ian McIntosh
  * ImLiar
  * Jean-Rémi Desjardins
  * Jisoo Park
+ * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo
  * Josh Marcus
  * Juan Pedro Moreno
  * Julien Richard-Foy
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index e5cb831ae3..5d9ac88cd7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,32 @@
+## Version 0.7.2
+
+> 2016 September 1
+
+Version 0.7.2 is a patch release that was released to fix a major bug
+([#1346](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/issues/1346)) that appeared
+in 0.7.0. It also contains several other improvements.
+
+It should be safe to upgrade from 0.7.0 to 0.7.2 -- there are no major
+API changes between these releases.
+
+### Changes
+
+Fixes:
+
+ * [#1347](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1347): fixes broken `Monoid[Map[K, V]].combineAll` implementation.
+ * [#1304](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1304): fix `CoflatMap` documentation.
+ * [#1322](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1322): fix SBT commands (`release`, `validate`, etc.).
+ * [#1311](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1311): rename some implicit instances for consistency.
+
+Additions:
+
+ * [#1319](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1347): add missing `BigDecimal` instances.
+ * [#1324](https://github.com/typelevel/cats/pull/1324): add missing function and `BitSet` instances.
+
+Note that 0.7.2 was preceeded by a botched 0.7.1. release. Please
+avoid using this version of Cats -- it has major incompatibilities
+with 0.7.0 and is not documented here.
+
 ## Version 0.7.0
 
 > 2016 August 21
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79033044c7..182a011591 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ To get started with SBT, simply add the following to your `build.sbt`
 file:
 
 ```scala
-libraryDependencies += "org.typelevel" %% "cats" % "0.7.0"
+libraryDependencies += "org.typelevel" %% "cats" % "0.7.2"
 ```
 
 This will pull in all of Cats' modules. If you only require some