diff --git a/pillarsdk/config.py b/pillarsdk/config.py
index bb64aa4..0e1a38d 100644
--- a/pillarsdk/config.py
+++ b/pillarsdk/config.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '1.6.1'
+__version__ = '1.7.0'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bee9413..ec3b378 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The Pillar REST SDK provides Python APIs to communicate to the Pillar webservice
 
 setup(
     name='pillarsdk',
-    version='1.6.1',
+    version='1.7.0',
     author=u'Francesco Siddi, Sybren A. Stüvel, PayPal',
     author_email='francesco@blender.org',
     packages=['pillarsdk'],