diff --git a/cornac/__init__.py b/cornac/__init__.py
index fa870e168..64362841c 100644
--- a/cornac/__init__.py
+++ b/cornac/__init__.py
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@
 # Also importable from root
 from .experiment import Experiment
 
-__version__ = '1.6.1'
\ No newline at end of file
+__version__ = '1.7.0'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 3ad359637..2873ac05d 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
 author = 'Preferred.AI'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '1.6'
+version = '1.7'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '1.6.1'
+release = '1.7.0'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c56460b45..27f7b7ef5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def extract_gcc_binaries():
 
 setup(
     name="cornac",
-    version="1.6.1",
+    version="1.7.0",
     description="A Comparative Framework for Multimodal Recommender Systems",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",