diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dfb337ff6ebbf21e48382a6f57ca13b31a8c8f7d..447f387aebe2519eb4296a0b1a41407ffd900e52 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-Unreleased
-----------
+[1.7.1] (2024-12-18)
+--------------------
 
 ### Fixed
 
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ Unreleased
 - mp3 support by using FFmpeg instead of librosa in #8
 - add language detection endpoint in #9
 
+[1.7.1]: https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice/releases/tag/v1.7.1
 [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
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 20ee0c059f904cd380f8d454c3963497d1f880de..b5212835417a04f35bd3969d18ebdf43b7fc0ba7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large
 
 ## Features
 
-Current release (v1.7.0) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.7.1) 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)@[v1.1.0](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.1.0)
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index 93e2fc4f4fcc6fb165779b2897c793148146d451..45f40ecfb391404c8babceef91a7c9610cdba45d 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Whisper is a general-purpose speech recognition model. It is trained on a large
 
 ## Features
 
-Current release (v1.7.0) supports following whisper models:
+Current release (v1.7.1) 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)@[v1.1.0](https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper/releases/tag/v1.1.0)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d97aed2b3b0eb2daf805a11133f2e89391cd5301..27e5364b0550fcfa7fecc7520fff44a622dec781 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "whisper-asr-webservice"
-version = "1.8.0-dev"
+version = "1.7.1"
 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"