diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5395402a13a88f27494ec193c9adac04a42126ea..ac16dee6a5e4a95ddfe9e2439879b05c8ec0b069 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.1)
 project (opendht)
 set (opendht_VERSION_MAJOR 1)
-set (opendht_VERSION_MINOR 6.1)
+set (opendht_VERSION_MINOR 7.0)
 set (opendht_VERSION ${opendht_VERSION_MAJOR}.${opendht_VERSION_MINOR})
 set (PACKAGE_VERSION ${opendht_VERSION})
 set (VERSION "${opendht_VERSION}")
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ option (OPENDHT_PROXY_CLIENT "Enable DHT proxy client, use Restbed and jsoncpp"
 option (OPENDHT_INDEX "Build DHT indexation feature" OFF)
 option (OPENDHT_TESTS "Add unit tests executable" OFF)
 
-
 find_package(Doxygen)
 option (OPENDHT_DOCUMENTATION "Create and install the HTML based API documentation (requires Doxygen)" ${DOXYGEN_FOUND})
 
@@ -309,7 +308,7 @@ IF(OPENDHT_TESTS)
     if (OPENDHT_SHARED)
       TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(opendht_unit_tests opendht)
     else ()
-    	TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(opendht_unit_tests opendht-static)
+      TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(opendht_unit_tests opendht-static)
     endif ()
     TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(opendht_unit_tests
        ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT}
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f48673d27ca7a09c641d78a82101ab0f3719b97a..3bfa584eeb2fdcb42856e8dc19345918c53af41c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 dnl define macros
 m4_define([opendht_major_version], 1)
-m4_define([opendht_minor_version], 6)
-m4_define([opendht_patch_version], 1)
+m4_define([opendht_minor_version], 7)
+m4_define([opendht_patch_version], 0)
 m4_define([opendht_version],
 		  [opendht_major_version.opendht_minor_version.opendht_patch_version])