diff --git a/.nuget/directxmesh_desktop_win10.nuspec b/.nuget/directxmesh_desktop_win10.nuspec
index 3e6a9730..08818c16 100644
--- a/.nuget/directxmesh_desktop_win10.nuspec
+++ b/.nuget/directxmesh_desktop_win10.nuspec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
This version is for Windows desktop applications using Visual Studio 2022 on Windows 10 / Windows 11 including both DirectX 11 and DirectX 12.
DirectXMesh, a shared source library for performing various geometry content processing operations including generating normals and tangent frames, triangle adjacency computations, vertex cache optimization, and meshlet generation.
- Matches the October 27, 2025 release on GitHub.
+ Matches the March 31, 2026 release on GitHub.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=324981
images\icon.jpg
diff --git a/.nuget/directxmesh_uwp.nuspec b/.nuget/directxmesh_uwp.nuspec
index 0575e3a9..68101763 100644
--- a/.nuget/directxmesh_uwp.nuspec
+++ b/.nuget/directxmesh_uwp.nuspec
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
This version is for Universal Windows Platform apps on Windows 10 / Windows 11 using Visual Studio 2022.
DirectXMesh, a shared source library for performing various geometry content processing operations including generating normals and tangent frames, triangle adjacency computations, vertex cache optimization, and meshlet generation.
- Matches the October 27, 2025 release on GitHub.
+ Matches the March 31, 2026 release on GitHub.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=324981
images\icon.jpg
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b98be86c..0c9b90c5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Releases available for download on [GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/DirectX
## Release History
+### March 31, 2026
+* Minor code review
+* VS 2026 support
+* Retire VS 2019 projects
+* CMake project updates
+* meshconvert: updated to support feedback
+
### October 27, 2025
* Bug fixes for Meshlet generation reported by customers
* Minor code review
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e34ffd46..23f868fd 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ if(POLICY CMP0162)
cmake_policy(SET CMP0162 NEW)
endif()
-set(DIRECTXMESH_VERSION 1.7.0)
+set(DIRECTXMESH_VERSION 1.7.1)
project(DirectXMesh
VERSION ${DIRECTXMESH_VERSION}
diff --git a/DirectXMesh/DirectXMesh.h b/DirectXMesh/DirectXMesh.h
index 075fd394..35344f88 100644
--- a/DirectXMesh/DirectXMesh.h
+++ b/DirectXMesh/DirectXMesh.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
#include
#include
-#define DIRECTX_MESH_VERSION 170
+#define DIRECTX_MESH_VERSION 171
#if defined(_WIN32) && defined(DIRECTX_MESH_EXPORT)
#ifdef __GNUC__
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index be42867b..3678ed53 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=324981
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
-## October 27, 2025
+## March 31, 2026
This package contains DirectXMesh, a shared source library for performing various geometry content processing operations including generating normals and tangent frames, triangle adjacency computations, vertex cache optimization, and meshlet generation.
diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
index 167c4b40..e751608f 100644
--- a/SECURITY.md
+++ b/SECURITY.md
@@ -1,41 +1,14 @@
-
+
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-
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-
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