diff --git a/ENV-NOTES b/ENV-NOTES
index fb62edd..88ec4c8 100644
--- a/ENV-NOTES
+++ b/ENV-NOTES
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@ DB_DIRECTORY  - path to the database directory (if relative, to `run` script)
 USERNAME      - the username the server will run as if using `run` script
 ELECTRUMX     - path to the electrumx_server.py script (if relative,
                 to `run` script)
-DAEMON_URL    - the URL used to connect to the daemon.  Should be of the form
+DAEMON_URL    - A comma-separated list of daemon URLS.  If more than one is
+                provided ElectrumX will failover to the next when one stops
+                working.  The generic form is:
                     http://username:password@hostname:port/
-                Alternatively you can specify DAEMON_USERNAME, DAEMON_PASSWORD,
-                DAEMON_HOST and DAEMON_PORT.  DAEMON_PORT is optional and
-                will default appropriately for COIN.
+                The leading 'http://' is optional, as is the trailing
+                slash.  The ':port' part is also optional and will default
+                to the standard RPC port for COIN if omitted.
 
 The other environment variables are all optional and will adopt
 sensible defaults if not specified.
diff --git a/HOWTO.rst b/HOWTO.rst
index 3f3fa5a..79fc35b 100644
--- a/HOWTO.rst
+++ b/HOWTO.rst
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ for someone used to either.
 When building the database form the genesis block, ElectrumX has to
 flush large quantities of data to disk and to leveldb.  You will have
 a much nicer experience if the database directory is on an SSD than on
-an HDD.  Currently to around height 434,000 of the Bitcoin blockchain
+an HDD.  Currently to around height 439,800 of the Bitcoin blockchain
 the final size of the leveldb database, and other ElectrumX file
-metadata comes to just over 17GB.  Leveldb needs a bit more for brief
+metadata comes to just over 18GB.  Leveldb needs a bit more for brief
 periods, and the block chain is only getting longer, so I would
 recommend having at least 30-40GB free space.
 
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 4b505c3..5de94dc 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+version 0.7
+-----------
+
+- daemon failover is now supported; see docs/ENV-NOTES.  As a result,
+  DAEMON_URL must now be supplied and DAEMON_USERNAME, DAEMON_PASSWORD,
+  DAEMON_HOST and DAEMON_PORT are no longer used.
+- fixed a bug introduced in 0.6 series where some client header requests
+  would fail
+- fully asynchronous mempool handling; blocks can be processed and clients
+  notified whilst the mempool is still being processed
+
 version 0.6.3
 -------------