Update changelog and version7.1.2

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 953b1db7c..13a98665d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+**7.1.2 (2015-08-22)**
+
+* Don't raise an error if pip is not installed when checking for the latest pip
+  version.
+
+
 **7.1.1 (2015-08-20)**
 
 * Check that the wheel cache directory is writable before we attempt to write
diff --git a/pip/__init__.py b/pip/__init__.py
index b04cb00e0..114bd59b4 100755
--- a/pip/__init__.py
+++ b/pip/__init__.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import pip.cmdoptions
 cmdoptions = pip.cmdoptions
 
 # The version as used in the setup.py and the docs conf.py
-__version__ = "7.2.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "7.1.2"
 
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)