diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 52e5747bfa..ea66091f5f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-### v0.80.0
+### v0.71.0
 ###### Features
 - Reduce storage on disk by reducing regional specs to only have differences from `us-east-1` spec (pull #[2457](https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-lint/pull/2457))
 ###### CloudFormation Specifications
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b4fb9370d..55a9f6514b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ If you'd like cfn-lint to be run automatically when making changes to files in y
 ```yaml
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-lint
-  rev: v0.80.0  # The version of cfn-lint to use
+  rev: v0.71.0  # The version of cfn-lint to use
   hooks:
     - id: cfn-lint
       files: path/to/cfn/dir/.*\.(json|yml|yaml)$
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ If you are using a `.cfnlintrc` and specifying the `templates` or `ignore_templa
 ```yaml
 repos:
 - repo: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/cfn-lint
-  rev: v0.80.0  # The version of cfn-lint to use
+  rev: v0.71.0  # The version of cfn-lint to use
   hooks:
     - id: cfn-lint-rc
 ```
diff --git a/src/cfnlint/version.py b/src/cfnlint/version.py
index 57fd7a7e72..68d199febb 100644
--- a/src/cfnlint/version.py
+++ b/src/cfnlint/version.py
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
 """
 
-__version__ = '0.80.0'
+__version__ = '0.71.0'