diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 9349da71..b2b2b6f8 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+E2fsprogs 1.23-WIP (July 20, 2001)  (up to Changeset 1.789)
+==================================
+
+Add initial support for extended attributes (EA); e2fsck will
+correctly handle a filesystem with extended attributes and check the
+EA blocks for corruptions.
+
+Speed up the check of an ext3 filesystems by avoiding a needless flush
+of all of the superblock and block group descriptors.
+
+Add support in fsck for the filesystem type "auto".
+
+
 E2fsprogs 1.22 (June 22, 2001)
 ==============================
 
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index 2b3aab0c..b1c3cfb4 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
  * Ts'o.  This file may be redistributed under the GNU Public License.
  */
 
-#define E2FSPROGS_VERSION "1.22"
-#define E2FSPROGS_DATE "22-Jun-2001"
+#define E2FSPROGS_VERSION "1.23-WIP"
+#define E2FSPROGS_DATE "20-Jul-2001"