diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 87853bfc..12163a28 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-10-19  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
+
+	* configure.ac: Replace "cvs" in version number by "svn".
+
 2011-10-10  Joerg Wunsch <j.gnu@uriah.heep.sax.de>
 
 	bug #34518: loading intel hex files > 64k using record-type 4
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d32a053e..b3b8e66d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT(avrdude, 5.11cvs, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
+AC_INIT(avrdude, 5.11svn, avrdude-dev@nongnu.org)
 
 AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST