diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2e73bfe8e860d3a11beb10082bbf99027700f00e..1ba4c3de144cceaceb33121d93620ec089e9b985 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ Changelog
 Unreleased
 ----------
 
+[1.7.0] (2024-12-17)
+--------------------
+
 ### Added
 
   - Timeout configured to allow model to be unloaded when idle
   - Added detection confidence to langauge detection endpoint
   - Set mel generation to adjust n_dims automatically to match the loaded model
-
-### Added
-
   - Refactor classes, Add comments, implement abstract methods, and add factory method for engine selection
 
 ### Changed
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ Unreleased
 - mp3 support by using FFmpeg instead of librosa in #8
 - add language detection endpoint in #9
 
+[1.7.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.7.0
 [1.6.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.6.0
 [1.5.0]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.5.0
 [1.4.1]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.4.1
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 26bbaf7e01cd52bcd7a09895342dcd5409b36999..20ee0c059f904cd380f8d454c3963497d1f880de 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large
 
 ## Features
 
-Current release (v1.6.0) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.7.0) supports following whisper models:
 
 - [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper)@[v20240930](https://github.com/openai/whisper/releases/tag/v20240930)
-- [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v1.0.3](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/1.0.3)
+- [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v1.1.0](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.1.0)
 
 ## Quick Usage
 
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 8cc5d18c26205b455ab46580323d0e29766adabd..93e2fc4f4fcc6fb165779b2897c793148146d451 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large
 
 ## Features
 
-Current release (v1.6.0) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.7.0) supports following whisper models:
 
 - [openai/whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper)@[v20240930](https://github.com/openai/whisper/releases/tag/v20240930)
-- [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v1.0.3](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/1.0.3)
+- [SYSTRAN/faster-whisper](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper)@[v1.1.0](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.1.0)
 
 ## Quick Usage
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 230382e0573c6e264ea16d28e02c6bb46a5d2806..d97aed2b3b0eb2daf805a11133f2e89391cd5301 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "whisper-asr-webservice"
-version = "1.7.0-dev"
+version = "1.8.0-dev"
 description = "Whisper ASR Webservice is a general-purpose speech recognition webservice."
 homepage = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/"
 license = "https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/blob/main/LICENCE"