diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 90b5b8b7c3..cb2138223a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Feb  3 11:40:05 2009  Shugo Maeda  <shugo@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/rexml/rexml.rb: incremented Ruby::VERSION.  Thanks, Jeremy
+	  Kemper.  [ruby-core:20113]
+
 Mon Feb  2 20:49:24 2009  Akinori MUSHA  <knu@iDaemons.org>
 
 	* enumerator.c: Introduce id_each to save rb_itern() and SYM2ID()
diff --git a/lib/rexml/rexml.rb b/lib/rexml/rexml.rb
index 8af1697e51..95bc2a7f6d 100644
--- a/lib/rexml/rexml.rb
+++ b/lib/rexml/rexml.rb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # online[http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html]
 module REXML
   COPYRIGHT = "Copyright \xC2\xA9 2001-2006 Sean Russell <ser@germane-software.com>"
-  VERSION = "3.1.7.2"
+  VERSION = "3.1.7.3"
   DATE = "2007/275"
   REVISION = "$Revision$".gsub(/\$Revision:|\$/,'').strip