diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 875a0f2..a97a6e1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/mdds-1.5.0.tar.bz2
+/mdds-1.7.0.tar.bz2
diff --git a/mdds.spec b/mdds.spec
index 8071f9e..661bac7 100644
--- a/mdds.spec
+++ b/mdds.spec
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 %global apiversion 1.5
 
 Name: mdds
-Version: 1.5.0
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 1.7.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 Summary: A collection of multi-dimensional data structures and indexing algorithms
 
 License: MIT
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ make check %{?_smp_mflags}
 %license LICENSE
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Sep 21 2020 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.7.0-1
+- new upstream release
+
 * Tue Jul 28 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.5.0-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 5cb052f..3e65c70 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (mdds-1.5.0.tar.bz2) = 9ed434dbc00285defbf3e0989396a1b52439bfdda01e5fd5822fef5e42e2c9b0b9436dd11b99af84a09a1965191ec106114e4046834f5b733474759f43bbfd95
+SHA512 (mdds-1.7.0.tar.bz2) = a4ca9c54f07343aeeaeaec1ba11d52bc3c0f8c66c0e3a9c635c20fc929b59818443e8e23bde3243b8420a21d669a8e6d53799c354b9c6135bba2f0f58beab612