diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt
index 84ba827..ba7d3c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt
@@ -4,59 +4,81 @@
 Fixes since v1.7.11.5
 ---------------------
 
-This consists primarily of documentation updates and low-impact code
-clarification and bugfixes.
-
- - "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
+ * "ciabot" script (in contrib/) has been updated with extensive
    documentation.
 
- - The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
-   but we didn't document it.
+ * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a
+   non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from
+   running.
 
- - It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
-   subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
-   easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
-
- - The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
-   the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
-   commands were poorly described in the documentation.
-
- - Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
-   file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and
-   tags, which is not true for quite some time.
-
- - A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
-   for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
-
- - Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
-
- - "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
-   died when the human-readable committer name was given
-   insufficiently by getpwent(3).
-
- - The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
-   inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
-
- - When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
+ * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
    rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
    started to fail.  Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
 
- - When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
-   message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
-   the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
-
- - "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
-   working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
-   name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
-
- - "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
-   header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
-
- - When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
+ * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
    revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
    used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate".  The message
    has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
    line.
 
- - "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
+ * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
+   example.
+
+ * Older parts of the documentation described as if having a regular
+   file in .git/refs/ hierarchy were the only way to have branches and
+   tags, which is not true for quite some time.
+
+ * It was generally understood that "--long-option"s to many of our
+   subcommands can be abbreviated to the unique prefix, but it was not
+   easy to find it described for new readers of the documentation set.
+
+ * The "--topo-order", "--date-order" (and the lack of either means
+   the default order) options to "rev-list" and "log" family of
+   commands were poorly described in the documentation.
+
+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then
+   died when the human-readable committer name was given
+   insufficiently by getpwent(3).
+
+ * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
+   being incorrect.  The implementation has been updated to give the
+   documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a
+   new code for "all other errors".
+
+ * The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an
+   incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own.
+
+ * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
+   working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
+   name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
+
+ * The "--rebase" option to "git pull" can be abbreviated to "-r",
+   but we didn't document it.
+
+ * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
+   message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
+   the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
+
+ * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
+   inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
+
+ * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
+   header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
+
+ * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts
+   unlike other mergy operations.
+
+ * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
+   submodule was misspelt.
+
+ * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree
+   that has local changes.
+   (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint).
+
+ * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
    SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
+
+ * Fallback 'getpass' implementation made unportable use of stdio API.
+
+ * A utility shell function test_seq has been added as a replacement
+   for the 'seq' utility found on some platforms.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index 677eb95..165d13a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -44,9 +44,10 @@
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v1.7.11.5/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.5]
+* link:v1.7.11.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.7.11.6]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/1.7.11.6.txt[1.7.11.6],
   link:RelNotes/1.7.11.5.txt[1.7.11.5],
   link:RelNotes/1.7.11.4.txt[1.7.11.4],
   link:RelNotes/1.7.11.3.txt[1.7.11.3],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index bab4056..754b94e 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v1.7.11.5
+DEF_VER=v1.7.11.6
 
 LF='
 '