diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e12e0103f7a44915e16f163cbdfe8ffc393eaf5c..240e1aff64dc555c0316606dce19589fea02a863 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,22 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [Unreleased] ##
+
+### Added ###
+
+### Changed ###
+
+### Deprecated ###
+
+### Removed ###
+
+### Fixed ###
+
+### Security ###
+
+### Documentation ###
+
 ## [0.7.0] - 2024-03-04 ##
 
 ### Added ###
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 5205bd19d9989204fea622942e508473627acd46..1e8abb8eeee2ba4b861a71880c96d943f813c812 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = caoscrawler
-version = 0.7.0
+version = 0.7.1
 author = Alexander Schlemmer
 author_email = alexander.schlemmer@ds.mpg.de
 description = A new crawler for caosdb
diff --git a/src/doc/conf.py b/src/doc/conf.py
index d29439e291d5afbd56a827a5d016590424b905c8..ac5fc7f5d95c2399f4402121ba9445bc0dbc6aaa 100644
--- a/src/doc/conf.py
+++ b/src/doc/conf.py
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ copyright = '2024, IndiScale'
 author = 'Alexander Schlemmer'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '0.7.0'
+version = '0.7.1'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
 # release = '0.5.2-rc2'
-release = '0.7.0'
+release = '0.7.1-dev'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------