diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0a893f66..9d752407 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(
     name="graphein",
-    version="1.6.0",
+    version="1.7.0",
     description="Protein & Interactomic Graph Construction for Machine Learning",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",