diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
index d9b0d18bbd..0555b12671 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ require 'utils'
 
 ARGV.extend(HomebrewArgvExtension)
 
-HOMEBREW_VERSION = 0.7
+HOMEBREW_VERSION = '0.7.1'
 HOMEBREW_WWW = 'http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/'
 
 if Process.uid == 0