diff --git a/README b/README
index 17ac1173eb..b8f4b1f86b 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is the LAMMPS (1 Oct 2006) software package.
+This is the LAMMPS (12 Feb 2007) software package.
 
 LAMMPS stands for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel
 Simulator.
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ at sjplimp@sandia.gov.  The LAMMPS WWW Site at
 www.cs.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/lammps.html has more information about the
 code and its uses.
 
-The LAMMPS (1 Oct 2006) distribution includes the following files
+The LAMMPS (12 Feb 2007) distribution includes the following files
 and directories:
 
 README			   this file