--- a/.hgtags	Thu Jul 28 19:22:56 2022 -0400
+++ b/.hgtags	Fri Jul 29 12:01:19 2022 -0400
@@ -132,3 +132,4 @@
 266610d855194b2a55e6b501ccc302e6c0d8f6d0 rc-7-0-92
 04120d65778a403e11ac4280bf53f330eded75e3 release-7-1-0
 48fcfbaea2cdcfffaf1058c95832a33f70419a6f rc-7-1-90
+6c1e310b223029c3a21abe9629f4200560024c3a release-7-2-0

--- a/CITATION	Thu Jul 28 19:22:56 2022 -0400
+++ b/CITATION	Fri Jul 29 12:01:19 2022 -0400
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 To cite GNU Octave in publications use:
 
   John W. Eaton, David Bateman, Søren Hauberg, Rik Wehbring (2022).
-  GNU Octave version 7.1.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for
+  GNU Octave version 7.2.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for
   numerical computations.
-  URL https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v7.1.0/
+  URL https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v7.2.0/
 
 A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is:
 
   @manual{,
-    title     = {{GNU Octave} version 7.1.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for numerical computations},
+    title     = {{GNU Octave} version 7.2.0 manual: a high-level interactive language for numerical computations},
     author    = {John W. Eaton and David Bateman and S{\o}ren Hauberg and Rik Wehbring},
     year      = {2022},
-    url       = {https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v7.1.0/},
+    url       = {https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/v7.2.0/},
   }
 
 We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating GNU Octave, please

--- a/configure.ac	Thu Jul 28 19:22:56 2022 -0400
+++ b/configure.ac	Fri Jul 29 12:01:19 2022 -0400
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 ### Initialize Autoconf
 AC_PREREQ([2.65])
-AC_INIT([GNU Octave], [7.1.91], [https://octave.org/bugs.html], [octave],
+AC_INIT([GNU Octave], [7.2.1], [https://octave.org/bugs.html], [octave],
         [https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/])
 
 ### Declare version numbers
@@ -40,15 +40,15 @@
 ## versions.
 
 OCTAVE_MAJOR_VERSION=7
-OCTAVE_MINOR_VERSION=1
-OCTAVE_PATCH_VERSION=91
+OCTAVE_MINOR_VERSION=2
+OCTAVE_PATCH_VERSION=1
 
 dnl PACKAGE_VERSION is set by the AC_INIT VERSION argument.
 OCTAVE_VERSION="$PACKAGE_VERSION"
 
 OCTAVE_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 1993-2022 The Octave Project Developers."
 
-OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2022-06-13"
+OCTAVE_RELEASE_DATE="2022-07-28"
 
 ## The "API version" is used as a way of checking that interfaces in the
 ## liboctave and libinterp libraries haven't changed in a backwardly

--- a/etc/NEWS.7.md	Thu Jul 28 19:22:56 2022 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS.7.md	Fri Jul 29 12:01:19 2022 -0400
@@ -1,10 +1,22 @@
-Summary of bugs fixed for version 7.2.0 (tbd):
+Summary of bugs fixed for version 7.3.0 (tbd):
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
 For (bug #XXXXX) see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?XXXXX
 
 ### Improvements and fixes
 
+### GUI
+
+### Build system / Tests
+
+### Documentation
+
+
+Summary of bugs fixed for version 7.2.0 (2022-07-28):
+----------------------------------------------------
+
+### Improvements and fixes
+
 - Avoid out-of-bounds indexing when checking for broadcastable inplace operators (bug #38466).
 - `hdl2struct.m`: Fix saving of `uibuttongroups` (bug #62266).
 - Fix `ls` with glob patterns on Windows (bug #62282).

--- a/etc/icons/org.octave.Octave.appdata.xml	Thu Jul 28 19:22:56 2022 -0400
+++ b/etc/icons/org.octave.Octave.appdata.xml	Fri Jul 29 12:01:19 2022 -0400
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@
   <developer_name>John W. Eaton and others</developer_name>
   <content_rating type="oars-1.0"/>
   <releases>
+    <release date="2022-07-28" version="7.2.0"/>
     <release date="2022-04-06" version="7.1.0"/>
     <release date="2021-10-30" version="6.4.0"/>
     <release date="2021-07-11" version="6.3.0"/>