diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 83ac810a..1f11e1eb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 -*-Mode: outline-*-
 
+* News for v1.0:
+
+** Fast unwind (rbp, rsp, rip only) on x86_64 with a fallback to 
+   slow code path (Lassi Turra)
+** Improved local and remote unwinding on ARM (Ken Werner)
+** Testing, stability and many fixes on x86 (Paul Pluzhnikov)
+** FreeBSD port and clean separation of OS specific bits 
+   (Konstantin Belousov)
+** Thanks for all the bug reports, contributions and testing!
+
 * News for v0.99:
 
 ** Greatly improved x86-64 support thanks to Arun Sharma.
diff --git a/README b/README
index cf98f4f5..9f03a183 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 -*- mode: Outline -*-
 
-This is version 0.99 of the unwind library.  This library supports
+This is version 1.0 of the unwind library.  This library supports
 several architecture/operating-system combinations:
 
- Linux/IA-64:	Fully tested and supported.
  Linux/x86-64:	Works well.
- Linux/x86:	Works well, but C library is missing some unwind-info.
+ Linux/x86:	Works well.
+ Linux/ARM:	Works well.
+ Linux/IA-64:	Fully tested and supported.
  Linux/PARISC:	Works well, but C library missing unwind-info.
  HP-UX/IA-64:	Mostly works but known to have some serious limitations.
  Linux/PPC64:	Newly added.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 715b2f48..c17b9da8 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-define(pkg_major, 0)
-define(pkg_minor, 99)
-define(pkg_extra, -beta)
+define(pkg_major, 1)
+define(pkg_minor, 0)
+define(pkg_extra, -rc1)
 define(pkg_maintainer, libunwind-devel@nongnu.org)
 define(mkvers, $1.$2$3)
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.