diff --git a/Changes.rst b/Changes.rst
index b1f036c..135e389 100644
--- a/Changes.rst
+++ b/Changes.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Changes for v2.7.1 (2019-11-30)
+===============================
+
+-  Accept PEM keys as either str or bytes
+
 Changes for v2.7.0 (2019-11-30)
 ===============================
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2004d49..8833e7a 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='signxml',
-    version="2.7.0",
+    version="2.7.1",
     url='https://github.com/kislyuk/signxml',
     license='Apache Software License',
     author='Andrey Kislyuk',