diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0dc0b27..4d90494 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+* fuse-overlayfs-1.0.0
+
+- fix portability issue to 32 bits archs.
+
 * fuse-overlayfs-0.7.8
 
 - report correctly the number of links for a directory also for subsequent stat calls.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index aad4682..449abdc 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [0.7.8], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
+AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.0.0], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([main.c])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])