diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 75f9c6b86..d497d2643 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ in order to get warned about deprecated features used in your code.
 
 This can also be enabled programmatically with `warnings.simplefilter('default', DeprecationWarning)`.
 
-## [2.7.1] - not released yet
+## [2.7.2] - not released yet
+
+## [2.7.1] - 2023-03-27
 ### Changed
 - renamed `fonts.FontStyle` to [`fonts.FontFace`](https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fonts.html#fpdf.fonts.FontFace), and `FPDF.use_font_style` to [`FPDF.use_font_face`](https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fpdf.html#fpdf.FPDF.FPDF.use_font_face), to avoid confusions with `FPDF.font_style`
 
diff --git a/fpdf/fpdf.py b/fpdf/fpdf.py
index c514db9d3..7d860cdf5 100644
--- a/fpdf/fpdf.py
+++ b/fpdf/fpdf.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class Image:
 )
 
 # Public global variables:
-FPDF_VERSION = "2.7.0"
+FPDF_VERSION = "2.7.1"
 PAGE_FORMATS = {
     "a3": (841.89, 1190.55),
     "a4": (595.28, 841.89),
diff --git a/fpdf/table.py b/fpdf/table.py
index adca89e6f..4ca350fe7 100644
--- a/fpdf/table.py
+++ b/fpdf/table.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from numbers import Number
-from typing import List, Union
+from typing import List, Optional, Union
 
 from .enums import Align, TableBordersLayout, TableCellFillMode
 from .fonts import FontFace
@@ -345,9 +345,9 @@ def cell(
 class Cell:
     "Internal representation of a table cell"
     text: str
-    align: Union[str, Align]
-    style: FontFace
-    img: str
+    align: Optional[Union[str, Align]]
+    style: Optional[FontFace]
+    img: Optional[str]
     img_fill_width: bool
     colspan: int