diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2a2c04d26..44ad4c744 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ user-visible changes while the day to day changes are in the git logs.
 =======================================================================
         ___  _____ _
 __   __/ _ \|___  / |
-\ \ / / | | |  / /| |             (unamed release)
+\ \ / / | | |  / /| |             Happy leap day
  \ V /| |_| | / / | |
-  \_/  \___(_)_/  |_|             (not released yet)
+  \_/  \___(_)_/  |_|             (released on 2024/02/29)
 
 po4a main script:
  * Fix the parsing of nested simple and double quotes mixed with escaped
@@ -41,6 +41,25 @@ Translations:
  * Updated: Spanish, thanks gallegonovato.
  * Updated: Ukrainian, thanks Yuri Chornoivan (українська) and Сергій.
 
+Status of the binary translation:
+ * 4 languages at 100%: de, fr, ja, ru.
+ * 5 languages >= 95%: es (98%), it (98%), nb (98%), pt_BR (98%), uk (98%).
+ * 4 languages >= 90%: eo (91%), nl (93%), pt (93%), sr_Cyrl (93%).
+ * 4 languages >= 80%: hr (89%), hu (87%), zh_Hans (89%), zh_Hant (89%).
+ * 1 language  >= 70%: id (73%).
+ * 8 languages >= 50%: cs (55%), da (62%), et (65%), eu (54%), pl (59%), sl (53%), sv (68%), vi (64%).
+ * 1 language  >= 33%: ca (43%).
+ * 6 starting languages: ace (2%), af (7%), ar (13%), ka (16%), kn (7%), ko (18%).
+
+Status of the documentation translation:
+ * 3 languages at 100%: de, fr, it.
+ * 4 languages >= 95%: es (96%), ja (99%), pt_BR (99%), uk (99%).
+ * 2 languages >= 90%: nl (93%), sr_Cyrl (93%).
+ * 4 languages >= 80%: pt (89%), ru (84%), zh_Hans (88%), zh_Hant (88%).
+ * 1 language  >= 50%: pl (63%).
+ * 1 language  >= 33%: ca (42%).
+ * 4 starting languages: eo (3%), hr (0%), hu (0%), nb (4%).
+
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 __   __/ _ \|___  / _ \
diff --git a/lib/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm b/lib/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm
index ff4dc9f95..b2998c48e 100644
--- a/lib/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm
+++ b/lib/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use warnings;
 
 use subs qw(makespace);
 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT);
-$VERSION = "0.71-alpha";
+$VERSION = "0.71";
 @ISA     = qw(DynaLoader);
 @EXPORT  = qw(new process translate
   read write readpo writepo
diff --git a/po/bin/po4a.pot b/po/bin/po4a.pot
index 902811d82..886b739b0 100644
--- a/po/bin/po4a.pot
+++ b/po/bin/po4a.pot
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #, fuzzy
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: po4a 0.70\n"
+"Project-Id-Version: po4a 0.71\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: po4a@packages.debian.org\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-02-27 23:15+0100\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-02-29 21:14+0100\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
diff --git a/po/pod/po4a-pod.pot b/po/pod/po4a-pod.pot
index 448ad4534..6492bbf7d 100644
--- a/po/pod/po4a-pod.pot
+++ b/po/pod/po4a-pod.pot
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #, fuzzy
 msgid ""
 msgstr ""
-"Project-Id-Version: po4a 0.70\n"
+"Project-Id-Version: po4a 0.71\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: devel@lists.po4a.org\n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-02-25 21:27+0100\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2024-02-29 21:14+0100\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"