diff --git a/man/meson.1 b/man/meson.1
index 631110323..6defcaa2f 100644
--- a/man/meson.1
+++ b/man/meson.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "March 2017" "meson 0.39.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "March 2017" "meson 0.39.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 meson - a high productivity build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesonconf.1 b/man/mesonconf.1
index e334d0724..6ef8a1d6b 100644
--- a/man/mesonconf.1
+++ b/man/mesonconf.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESONCONF "1" "March 2017" "mesonconf 0.39.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESONCONF "1" "March 2017" "mesonconf 0.39.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesonconf - a tool to configure Meson builds
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesonintrospect.1 b/man/mesonintrospect.1
index 2346dce89..c9c11db64 100644
--- a/man/mesonintrospect.1
+++ b/man/mesonintrospect.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESONCONF "1" "March 2017" "mesonintrospect 0.39.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESONCONF "1" "March 2017" "mesonintrospect 0.39.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesonintrospect - a tool to extract information about a Meson build
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/mesontest.1 b/man/mesontest.1
index b98cff62e..4e701496b 100644
--- a/man/mesontest.1
+++ b/man/mesontest.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MESON "1" "March 2017" "meson 0.39.0" "User Commands"
+.TH MESON "1" "March 2017" "meson 0.39.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 mesontest - test tool for the Meson build system
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/man/wraptool.1 b/man/wraptool.1
index 3b0766b1b..0a6b9f191 100644
--- a/man/wraptool.1
+++ b/man/wraptool.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH WRAPTOOL "1" "March 2017" "meson 0.39.0" "User Commands"
+.TH WRAPTOOL "1" "March 2017" "meson 0.39.1" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 wraptool - source dependency downloader
 .SH DESCRIPTION
diff --git a/mesonbuild/coredata.py b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
index e88cdc8e7..94bbf7a0a 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/coredata.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/coredata.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from pathlib import PurePath
 from .mesonlib import MesonException, commonpath
 from .mesonlib import default_libdir, default_libexecdir, default_prefix
 
-version = '0.40.0.dev1'
+version = '0.39.1'
 backendlist = ['ninja', 'vs2010', 'vs2015', 'xcode']
 
 class UserOption: