diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9f360a26540357f629734c7d83a67c7ffd0df94b..bee456b43dc8c8f7f4e1b85a51082e05447a30a7 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: Makefile,v 1.364 2004-07-14 22:42:26 geuzaine Exp $
+# $Id: Makefile,v 1.365 2004-08-21 19:34:52 geuzaine Exp $
 #
 # Copyright (C) 1997-2004 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
 #
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 include variables
 
 GMSH_MAJOR_VERSION = 1
-GMSH_MINOR_VERSION = 54
-GMSH_PATCH_VERSION = 2
+GMSH_MINOR_VERSION = 55
+GMSH_PATCH_VERSION = 0
 GMSH_EXTRA_VERSION = "-cvs"
 
 GMSH_VERSION = ${GMSH_MAJOR_VERSION}.${GMSH_MINOR_VERSION}.${GMSH_PATCH_VERSION}${GMSH_EXTRA_VERSION}
diff --git a/doc/gmsh.html b/doc/gmsh.html
index 5c371f36286f0aae0b159c8a0fad264cf655c7d1..5f2bf8d164e1706b4ec78c199aec4e8969749ede 100644
--- a/doc/gmsh.html
+++ b/doc/gmsh.html
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ generator with built-in pre- and post-processing facilities</h1>
 <p>
 <h3 align="center">Christophe Geuzaine and Jean-François Remacle</h3>
 <p>
-<h3 align=center>Version <a href="doc/VERSIONS">1.54</a>, 3 July 2004</h3>
+<h3 align=center>Version <a href="doc/VERSIONS">1.55</a>, 21 August 2004</h3>
 <p>
 <center>
   <a href="#Description">Description</a> |
@@ -109,11 +109,11 @@ available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. The tutorial and demo files
 are included in the archives.
 
 <ul>
-<li><a href="/gmsh/bin/Windows/gmsh-1.54.0-Windows.zip">Windows zip archive (95/98/NT/2000/XP)</a>
-<li><a href="/gmsh/bin/Linux/gmsh-1.54.0-1.i386.rpm">Linux RPM (i386, Red Hat >= 7.3)</a>
-<li><a href="/gmsh/bin/Linux/gmsh-1.54.0-Linux.tgz">Linux tarball (i386, glibc >= 2.2)</a> 
-<li><a href="/gmsh/bin/MacOSX/gmsh-1.54.0-MacOSX.tgz">Mac OS X tarball (Mac OS X >= 10.2)</a>
-<li><a href="/gmsh/src/gmsh-1.54.0-source.tgz">Source tarball (all platforms)</a>
+<li><a href="/gmsh/bin/Windows/gmsh-1.55.0-Windows.zip">Windows zip archive (95/98/NT/2000/XP)</a>
+<li><a href="/gmsh/bin/Linux/gmsh-1.55.0-1.i386.rpm">Linux RPM (i386, Red Hat >= 7.3)</a>
+<li><a href="/gmsh/bin/Linux/gmsh-1.55.0-Linux.tgz">Linux tarball (i386, glibc >= 2.2)</a> 
+<li><a href="/gmsh/bin/MacOSX/gmsh-1.55.0-MacOSX.tgz">Mac OS X tarball (Mac OS X >= 10.2)</a>
+<li><a href="/gmsh/src/gmsh-1.55.0-source.tgz">Source tarball (all platforms)</a>
     <a href="#build-footnote" name="build-footmark"><sup>2</sup></a>
 </ul>
 
diff --git a/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi b/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi
index 2ac48d72a49b618f4459daa860c1fc1e679ab5b8..fed4d9238cea0a344ed62c0a63f3ad3e05255a05 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi
+++ b/doc/texinfo/gmsh.texi
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 \input texinfo.tex @c -*-texinfo-*-
-@c $Id: gmsh.texi,v 1.130 2004-08-20 17:54:20 geuzaine Exp $
+@c $Id: gmsh.texi,v 1.131 2004-08-21 19:34:52 geuzaine Exp $
 @c
 @c Copyright (C) 1997-2004 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
 @c
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
 @c =========================================================================
 @c %**start of header
 @setfilename        gmsh.info
-@set EDITION        1.23
-@set GMSH-VERSION   1.54
+@set EDITION        1.24
+@set GMSH-VERSION   1.55
 @set GMSH-WEB       @uref{http://www.geuz.org/gmsh/}
 @set COPYRIGHT      @copyright{} 1997-2004 Christophe Geuzaine, Jean-Fran@,{c}ois Remacle
 @c