diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6854b3300..38eb6c92b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ endif()
 
 # set up versioning.
 set(DF_VERSION "50.07")
-set(DFHACK_RELEASE "alpha0")
+set(DFHACK_RELEASE "alpha1")
 set(DFHACK_PRERELEASE TRUE)
 
 set(DFHACK_VERSION "${DF_VERSION}-${DFHACK_RELEASE}")
diff --git a/docs/changelog.txt b/docs/changelog.txt
index 901325ecb..2d442bae4 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.txt
+++ b/docs/changelog.txt
@@ -35,6 +35,20 @@ changelog.txt uses a syntax similar to RST, with a few special sequences:
 
 ## New Plugins
 
+## Fixes
+
+## Misc Improvements
+
+## Documentation
+
+## API
+
+## Lua
+
+## Removed
+
+# 50.07-alpha1
+
 ## Fixes
 - ``Units::isFortControlled``: Account for agitated wildlife
 -@ Fix right click sometimes closing both a DFHack window and a vanilla panel
@@ -71,8 +85,6 @@ changelog.txt uses a syntax similar to RST, with a few special sequences:
 - ``widgets.HotkeyLabel``: Added ``setOnActivate`` method to allow easily updating the ``on_activate`` callback.
 - ``widgets.FilteredList``: Added ``case_sensitive`` optional paramter to determine if filtering is case sensitive.
 
-## Removed
-
 # 50.05-alpha3.1
 
 ## Fixes
diff --git a/library/xml b/library/xml
index f2f2ba3cd..0c8d9a8cd 160000
--- a/library/xml
+++ b/library/xml
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit f2f2ba3cd8b4a45919bc597cb47cbb5994dc359c
+Subproject commit 0c8d9a8cdeeecd1ec3cd4f47a9d2682fec8f93e6
diff --git a/scripts b/scripts
index cc8d34121..aae5d8601 160000
--- a/scripts
+++ b/scripts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit cc8d3412146b02e6bfef02f0a7881add6b6ef60a
+Subproject commit aae5d860106017bb8a7a3bb8bcaa8a9252f3839e