diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a2a807e69..d4036311b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+===============================================================================
+                               Changes in 1.0
+===============================================================================
+
+- Added support for restarting xstream
+- Updated the example code
+- Fixed the IBM POWER support
+- Fixed a bug in affinity management
+- Fixed a bug in future operation
+- Fixed a bug in hugepage allocation
+- Removed retain/release APIs of ULTs and tasklets
+- Removed the event interface
+- Updated the code formatting standard to use clang-format
+
 ===============================================================================
                                Changes in 1.0rc2
 ===============================================================================
diff --git a/maint/version.m4 b/maint/version.m4
index bd402620b..89cdd1cfa 100644
--- a/maint/version.m4
+++ b/maint/version.m4
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # See COPYRIGHT in top-level directory.
 #
 
-m4_define([ABT_VERSION_m4],[1.0rc2])dnl
+m4_define([ABT_VERSION_m4],[1.0])dnl
 m4_define([ABT_RELEASE_DATE_m4],[unreleased development copy])dnl
 
 # For libtool ABI versioning rules see: