diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 82d961e1ec..5c8ff0b4d4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
-1.7.1dev
+1.7.1
 =====
 
 * bug-fix: get_execution_role no longer fails if user can't call get_role
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d987a29f72..dd9fccefec 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ You can install from source by cloning this repository and issuing a pip install
 
     git clone https://github.com/aws/sagemaker-python-sdk.git
     python setup.py sdist
-    pip install dist/sagemaker-1.7.0.tar.gz
+    pip install dist/sagemaker-1.7.1.tar.gz
 
 Supported Python versions
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 492113d272..22e4313143 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ def read(fname):
 
 
 setup(name="sagemaker",
-      version="1.7.0",
+      version="1.7.1",
       description="Open source library for training and deploying models on Amazon SageMaker.",
       packages=find_packages('src'),
       package_dir={'': 'src'},