diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 80e69a107..5ee63d21c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 
 Sandia OpenSHMEM NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
+1.3.1
+-----
+- Support for allocating the symmetric heap using Linux huge pages.
+- Improved support for Cray XC platforms.
+- Improved support for variations in atomics support across OFI providers.
+- Initial support for thread safety in the OFI transport.
+- Fix several issues with C/C++ bindings and profiling interface.
+- Added new benchmarks, unit tests, and examples.
+
 1.3.0
 -----
 - Support for OpenSHMEM 1.3 specification, including nonblocking communication,
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index cceb1edeb..a17b9dfa9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 dnl Init Autoconf/Automake/Libtool
 
-AC_INIT([Sandia OpenSHMEM], [1.3.0], [https://github.com/Sandia-OpenSHMEM/SOS])
+AC_INIT([Sandia OpenSHMEM], [1.3.1], [https://github.com/Sandia-OpenSHMEM/SOS])
 AC_PREREQ([2.60])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([config])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([config])
diff --git a/test/unit/shmemalign.c b/test/unit/shmemalign.c
index a5d77f2f0..275b65bdf 100644
--- a/test/unit/shmemalign.c
+++ b/test/unit/shmemalign.c
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ getSize (char *str)
 int
 main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
-    int me, nProcs, c, l, j;
+    int me, c, l, j;
     int nWords, loops, incWords;
 
     pgm = strrchr(argv[0],'/');
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 
     shmem_init();
     me = shmem_my_pe();
-    nProcs = shmem_n_pes();
 
     while ((c = getopt (argc, argv, "hpv")) != -1)
         switch (c)