From efd5b3f95131206145a59db1f51a4e49e7080208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Therapon Skoteiniotis <therapon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 18:46:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] prepare new release 1.7.0 (#309)

* prepare new release 1.6.2

* fix version number to be 1.7.0
---
 README.md | 2 +-
 pom.xml   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 76c150391f..10bc55c3ac 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ dependency into your project's `pom.xml`:
 <dependency>
   <groupId>com.amazon.ion</groupId>
   <artifactId>ion-java</artifactId>
-  <version>1.6.1</version>
+  <version>1.7.0</version>
 </dependency>
 ```
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 62ac58ae56..3f03843614 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.amazon.ion</groupId>
   <artifactId>ion-java</artifactId>
-  <version>1.6.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <version>1.7.0</version>
   <packaging>bundle</packaging>
 
   <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>