diff --git a/mps/code/version.c b/mps/code/version.c
index 3e654987bac..a9f5ed08e00 100644
--- a/mps/code/version.c
+++ b/mps/code/version.c
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 /* version.c: VERSION INSPECTION
  *
  * $Id$
- * Copyright (c) 2001 Ravenbrook Limited.  See end of file for license.
+ * Copyright (c) 2001, 2006 Ravenbrook Limited.  
+ * See end of file for license.
  *
  * PURPOSE
  *
@@ -22,11 +23,13 @@ SRCID(version, "$Id$");
 /* MPS_RELEASE -- the release name
  *
  * .release: When making a new release, change the expansion of
- * MPS_RELEASE to be a string of the form "release.dylan.crow.2" or
+ * MPS_RELEASE to be a string of the form "release/1.106.1" or
  * whatever.
+ *
+ * (Note: before 2006-02-01 the style was "release.epcore.chub")
  */
 
-#define MPS_RELEASE "release.epcore.chub"
+#define MPS_RELEASE "release/1.107.0"
 
 
 /* MPSCopyrightNotice -- copyright notice for the binary
@@ -36,13 +39,15 @@ SRCID(version, "$Id$");
  */
 
 char MPSCopyrightNotice[] =
-  "Portions copyright (c) 2002 Ravenbrook Limited and Global Graphics Software.";
+  "Portions copyright (c) 2006 Ravenbrook Limited and Global Graphics Software.";
 
 
 /* MPSVersion -- return version string
  *
  * The value of MPSVersion is a declared object comprising the
- * concatenation of all the version info.
+ * concatenation of all the version info.  The "@(#)" prefix 
+ * is the convention used by the BSD Unix command what(1); 
+ * see also guide.mps.version.
  */
 
 char MPSVersionString[] =
@@ -58,7 +63,8 @@ char *MPSVersion(void)
 
 /* C. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Ravenbrook Limited <http://www.ravenbrook.com/>.
+ * Copyright (C) 2001-2002, 2006 Ravenbrook Limited 
+ * <http://www.ravenbrook.com/>.
  * All rights reserved.  This is an open source license.  Contact
  * Ravenbrook for commercial licensing options.
  * 
diff --git a/mps/readme.txt b/mps/readme.txt
index b6cade3814d..f33d2e2e1f2 100644
--- a/mps/readme.txt
+++ b/mps/readme.txt
@@ -48,12 +48,8 @@ This document is not confidential.
 
 2. WHAT'S NEW; STATUS
 
-(In Master sources, this is a good place to accumulate a succinct
-record of changes.  In a release of the MPS-Kit, this section becomes
-the summary of what is new for that release.)
-
-[
-......Post 1.106.2 changes:
+This is release 1.107.0, made on 2006-12-13.
+Changes from release 1.106.2:
 
 Functional changes to MPS code:
 
@@ -87,10 +83,10 @@ Other changes:
 
 Some work-in-progress MPS documentation is available; see:
   manual/wiki/index.html
-]
 
-This is release 1.106.2, made on 2006-04-11.
-Changes from release 1.106.1:
+
+[
+Historical: changes in release 1.106.2 (2006-04-11):
 
 No functional changes to MPS implementation code.
 
@@ -112,6 +108,7 @@ Work on <http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/issue/job001365/>
 Fixed <http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/issue/job001367/>
   - there is a "hello-world" example of using the MPS, in:
       example/hello-world/index.txt
+]
 
 See:
   <http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/release/>
@@ -128,12 +125,12 @@ The MPS Kit is a complete set of sources and documentation to enable
 third parties to use, modify, and adapt the MPS.
 
 For Windows, the kit is distributed as the self-extracting archive
-"mps-kit-1.106.2.exe", and also as the ZIP archive
-"mps-kit-1.106.2.zip", which may be unpacked using WinZip.
+"mps-kit-1.107.0.exe", and also as the ZIP archive
+"mps-kit-1.107.0.zip", which may be unpacked using WinZip.
 
 For Unix and Mac OS X, the integration kit is distributed as the tarball
-"mps-kit-1.106.2.tar.gz".  Unpack it using the command "gunzip -c
-mps-kit-1.106.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -", or by dropping the file onto
+"mps-kit-1.107.0.tar.gz".  Unpack it using the command "gunzip -c
+mps-kit-1.107.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -", or by dropping the file onto
 StuffIt Expander under Mac OS X.
 
 The top-level file "index.html" in the sources indexes many other files,
@@ -336,6 +333,7 @@ B. DOCUMENT HISTORY
 2006-04-11  RHSK  Update from "1.106.1" to "1.106.2".
 2006-04-14  RHSK  Merge updates from version/1.106 back to master.
 2006-06-29  RHSK  Note fixed job001421, job001455.
+2006-12-13  RHSK  Release 1.107.0
 
 
 C. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE