diff --git a/.vscode/cspell.json b/.vscode/cspell.json
index 77305e988d..cc369ee81c 100644
--- a/.vscode/cspell.json
+++ b/.vscode/cspell.json
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@
         "davidchisnall",
         "Gabor",
         "Gyimesi",
+        "Heffner",
+        "johnwheffner",
         "Joubert",
         "juchem",
         "lordgamez",
diff --git a/sdk/core/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/core/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
index 86367b48ee..4e5d91913c 100644
--- a/sdk/core/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/core/azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 # Release History
 
-## 1.0.0-beta.3 (Unreleased)
-
-### Features Added
-
-### Breaking Changes
-
-### Bugs Fixed
+## 1.0.0-beta.3 (2022-08-04)
 
 ### Other Changes
 
+- Removed hard dependency on `opentelemetry-cpp` package version.
+
 ## 1.0.0-beta.2 (2022-06-30)
 
 ### Breaking Changes
diff --git a/sdk/core/azure-core/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/core/azure-core/CHANGELOG.md
index cc253905c9..6943fb3a43 100644
--- a/sdk/core/azure-core/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/core/azure-core/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
 # Release History
 
-## 1.8.0-beta.1 (Unreleased)
-
-### Features Added
-
-### Breaking Changes
+## 1.7.1 (2022-08-04)
 
 ### Bugs Fixed
 
 - [[#3794]](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp/issues/3794) Fix memory leak in `CurlTransport`.
+- [[#3692]](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-cpp/issues/3692) Interrupted poll calls cause spurious HTTP request failures. (A community contribution, courtesy of _[johnwheffner](https://github.com/johnwheffner)_)
 
-### Other Changes
+### Acknowledgments
+
+Thank you to our developer community members who helped to make Azure Core better with their contributions to this release:
+
+- John Heffner _([GitHub](https://github.com/johnwheffner))_
 
 ## 1.7.0 (2022-06-30)
 
diff --git a/sdk/core/azure-core/src/private/package_version.hpp b/sdk/core/azure-core/src/private/package_version.hpp
index 5c06d2895c..ccdaf968ce 100644
--- a/sdk/core/azure-core/src/private/package_version.hpp
+++ b/sdk/core/azure-core/src/private/package_version.hpp
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 #include <cstdint>
 
 #define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_MINOR 8
-#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_PATCH 0
-#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_PRERELEASE "beta.1"
+#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_MINOR 7
+#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_PATCH 1
+#define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_PRERELEASE ""
 
 #define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_ITOA_HELPER(i) #i
 #define AZURE_CORE_VERSION_ITOA(i) AZURE_CORE_VERSION_ITOA_HELPER(i)