diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 83666de..13e23dd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Version 1.0.0 (Beta 7)
+=============
+
+mdb-export:
+
+* Fix issue where byte columns with values > 127 were exported as negative numbers (regression introduced in v0.9.3-beta1) #350
+
 Version 1.0.0 (Beta 6)
 =============
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9ea6e66..85996c0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT([mdbtools],[1.0.0-beta6],[https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/issues],[],[https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools])
+AC_INIT([mdbtools],[1.0.0-beta7],[https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/issues],[],[https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/extras/mdb-dump.c)