diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 74f09ad..00cf85f 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -7,13 +7,21 @@ Legend:
     A change to Coleslaw's exported interface. Plugins or Themes that have
     not been upstreamed are effected and may require minor effort to fix.
 
-## Changes for 0.9.7 (20xx):
-
-* Coleslaw now handles **deploy-dir**, **repo**, and **staging-dir**
-  config options more gracefully. Previously, various errors could be
-  encountered if directory options lacked a trailing slash.
-* **New Plugin**: Support for [embedded gfycats][http://gfycat.com/] has been added.
+## Changes for 0.9.7 (2014-11-25):
 
+* **New Plugin**: Support for [embedded gfycats][http://gfycat.com/]
+  has been added. See the plugin use docs for further details.
+* **Enhancement**: UTF-8 support has been made more portable and
+  added to the Wordpress import plugin. (Thanks @cmstrickland!)
+* **Enhancement**: Coleslaw now handles **deploy-dir**, **repo**,
+  and **staging-dir** config options more gracefully. Previously,
+  various errors could be encountered if directory options lacked
+  a trailing slash.
+* Several portability fixes were made to CCL's encoding handling
+  and usage in the post-receive script.
+* Filenames are now included in errors from the content loader. (via @PuercoPop)
+* An initarg bug was fixed in the directory-does-not-exist condition.
+* Some namespacing bugs in the Static Pages plugin have been fixed.
 
 ## Changes for 0.9.6 (2014-09-27):
 
diff --git a/coleslaw.asd b/coleslaw.asd
index cc41e7f..fe13837 100644
--- a/coleslaw.asd
+++ b/coleslaw.asd
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 (defsystem #:coleslaw
   :name "coleslaw"
   :description "Flexible Lisp Blogware"
-  :version "0.9.7-dev"
+  :version "0.9.7"
   :license "BSD"
   :author "Brit Butler <redline6561@gmail.com>"
   :pathname "src/"
diff --git a/docs/plugin-use.md b/docs/plugin-use.md
index dd3a302..fba2d6e 100644
--- a/docs/plugin-use.md
+++ b/docs/plugin-use.md
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 ## HTML5 Gifs via Gfycat
 
 **Description**: Provides support for embedding [gfycat](http://gfycat.com/) gifs.
+  Any content tagged 'gfycat' containing an IMG element of the form
+  `<img class="gfyitem" data-id="your-gfy-slug" />` will embed the
+  corresponding gfy.
 
 **Example**: `(gfycat)`