diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 6174a09590145dc1f76d35ab509033a935df50e3..ceb01be5be5b320b7353d1eb4ee6daad18be9e1c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-- Fix crash when fallback initshells() is used, reported by Michael Nowak and Mike Tzou
+2016.73 - 18 March 2016
 
 - Support syslog in dbclient, option -o usesyslog=yes. Patch from Konstantin Tokarev
 
@@ -9,14 +9,25 @@
 - New "-o" option parsing from Konstantin Tokarev. This allows handling some extra options
   in the style of OpenSSH, though implementing all OpenSSH options is not planned.
 
-- Various cleanups for issues found by a lint tool, patch from Francois Perrad
+- Fix crash when fallback initshells() is used, reported by Michael Nowak and Mike Tzou
 
 - Allow specifying commands eg "dropbearmulti dbclient ..." instead of symlinks
 
+- Various cleanups for issues found by a lint tool, patch from Francois Perrad
+
 - Fix tab indent consistency, patch from Francois Perrad
 
 - Fix issues found by cppcheck, reported by Mike Tzou
 
+- Use system memset_s() or explicit_bzero() if available to clear memory. Also make
+  libtomcrypt/libtommath routines use that (or Dropbear's own m_burn()).
+
+- Prevent scp failing when the local user doesn't exist. Based on patch from Michael Witten.
+
+- Improved Travis CI test running, thanks to Mike Tzou
+
+- Improve some code that was flagged by Coverity and Fortify Static Code Analyzer
+
 2016.72 - 9 March 2016
 
 - Validate X11 forwarding input. Could allow bypass of authorized_keys command= restrictions,
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9a3d08e7e6e9a5569f0e0833ce722a9ef38c0593..9669e2aa18f434a21e28d507c0067b9a732df2d8 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+dropbear (2016.73-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+
+ -- Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>  Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:52:58 +0800
+
 dropbear (2016.72-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release.
diff --git a/sysoptions.h b/sysoptions.h
index 8ce43613aab247e21fa513da9606b94cfdfb536d..9a76655f2625feb300527cf70b928a0a1224cba0 100644
--- a/sysoptions.h
+++ b/sysoptions.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *******************************************************************/
 
 #ifndef DROPBEAR_VERSION
-#define DROPBEAR_VERSION "2016.72"
+#define DROPBEAR_VERSION "2016.73"
 #endif
 
 #define LOCAL_IDENT "SSH-2.0-dropbear_" DROPBEAR_VERSION