DOC: release notes, what's new, change dev version to 0.7.1

Author: wesm

RELEASE.rst

@@ -35,11 +35,17 @@ pandas 0.7.1
     dataframe as tuples (#818)
   - Add ability to pass fill_value and method to DataFrame and Series align
     method (#806, #807)
-  - Add fill_value option to reindex (#784)
+  - Add fill_value option to reindex, align methods (#784)
   - Enable concat to produce DataFrame from Series (#787)
   - Add ``between`` method to Series (#802)
+  - Add HTML representation hook to DataFrame for the IPython HTML notebook
+    (#773)
+  - Support for reading Excel 2007 XML documents using openpyxl
 
-**API Changes**
+**Improvements to existing features**
+
+  - Improve performance and memory usage of fillna on DataFrame
+  - Can concatenate a list of Series along axis=1 to obtain a DataFrame (#787)
 
 **Bug fixes**
 

doc/source/whatsnew.rst

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ What's New
 
 These are new features and improvements of note in each release.
 
+.. include:: whatsnew/v0.7.1.txt
+
 .. include:: whatsnew/v0.7.0.txt
 
 .. include:: whatsnew/v0.6.1.txt

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.7.1.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+.. _whatsnew_0701:
+
+v.0.7.1 (February 29, 2012)
+---------------------------
+
+This release includes a few new features and addresses over a dozen bugs in
+0.7.0.
+
+New features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+  - Add ``to_clipboard`` function to pandas namespace for writing objects to
+    the system clipboard (#774)
+  - Add ``itertuples`` method to DataFrame for iterating through the rows of a
+    dataframe as tuples (#818)
+  - Add ability to pass fill_value and method to DataFrame and Series align
+    method (#806, #807)
+  - Add fill_value option to reindex, align methods (#784)
+  - Enable concat to produce DataFrame from Series (#787)
+  - Add ``between`` method to Series (#802)
+  - Add HTML representation hook to DataFrame for the IPython HTML notebook
+    (#773)
+  - Support for reading Excel 2007 XML documents using openpyxl
+
+Performance improvements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+  - Improve performance and memory usage of fillna on DataFrame
+  - Can concatenate a list of Series along axis=1 to obtain a DataFrame (#787)

setup.py

@@ -163,8 +163,8 @@
 ]
 
 MAJOR = 0
-MINOR = 8
-MICRO = 0
+MINOR = 7
+MICRO = 1
 ISRELEASED = False
 VERSION = '%d.%d.%d' % (MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO)
 QUALIFIER = ''