Create 1.7RC1
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index ab1b8b2..ec53e70 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@
 		<author email="py4fun@gmail.com">Andrey Somov</author>

 	</properties>

 	<body>

-          <release version="1.7" date="in Mercurial" description="development">

+          <release version="1.7" date="in Mercurial" description="Simplify public API (Loader and Dumper are deprecated)">

+            <action dev="py4fun" type="update">

+                Create 1.7RC1 (2010-08-11)

+            </action>

             <action dev="py4fun" type="update" issue="77">

                 Simplify public API: Drop Dumper (2010-08-06)

             </action>

diff --git a/src/etc/announcement.msg b/src/etc/announcement.msg
index 87833f6..7d35167 100644
--- a/src/etc/announcement.msg
+++ b/src/etc/announcement.msg
@@ -1,25 +1,26 @@
 From: Andrey Somov <py4fun@gmail.com>

 To: yaml-core@lists.sourceforge.net

-Subject: [ANN] SnakeYAML-1.6 final is available

+Subject: [ANN] SnakeYAML-1.7 final is available

 

 ==========================

- Announcing SnakeYAML-1.6

+ Announcing SnakeYAML-1.7

 ==========================

 

 A new release of SnakeYAML is now available:

 

     http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/

 

-This release delivers introduction of Tag class, 

+This release delivers simplified public API (Loader and Dumper are deprecated, issue 77),

 as well as other minor changes and bug fixes.

 

 Changes

 ========

- * Introduction of Tag class

- * Performance improvements

- * Refactoring of scanner and parser

+ * fix for issue 74: Do not use redundant tags for arrays which are JavaBean properties,

+ * fix for issue 73: Provide support for loading java.util.Set as a sequence,

+ * fix for issue 55: Allow direct field access bypassing setters and getters,

+ * fix for issue 53: Enhancement for a pretty format that combines BLOCK and FLOW

 

-The complete list of changes is here: http://snakeyamlrepo.appspot.com/releases/1.6/site/changes-report.html 

+The complete list of changes is here: http://snakeyamlrepo.appspot.com/releases/1.7/site/changes-report.html 

 

 Resources

 ==========

@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
 SnakeYAML homepage: http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/

 SnakeYAML documentation: http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/wiki/Documentation

 

-JAR package: http://snakeyamlrepo.appspot.com/repository/org/yaml/snakeyaml/1.6/snakeyaml-1.6.jar

+JAR package: http://snakeyamlrepo.appspot.com/repository/org/yaml/snakeyaml/1.7/snakeyaml-1.7.jar

 Reports: http://snakeyamlrepo.appspot.com/

 

 SnakeYAML Mercurial repository: http://snakeyaml.googlecode.com/hg/