Bump to 1.7.0 beta1v1.7.0b1

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 955e59802..95ac8d4b0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Release 1.7 (in development)
-============================
+Release 1.7.0 beta1 (released Jan 15, 2018)
+===========================================
 
 Dependencies
 ------------
diff --git a/sphinx/__init__.py b/sphinx/__init__.py
index c84e2672f..3dbabf7f5 100644
--- a/sphinx/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/__init__.py
@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@ if 'PYTHONWARNINGS' not in os.environ:
 warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', "'U' mode is deprecated",
                         DeprecationWarning, module='docutils.io')
 
-__version__ = '1.7+'
-__released__ = '1.7'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
+__version__ = '1.7.0b1'
+__released__ = '1.7.0b1'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
 
 # version info for better programmatic use
 # possible values for 3rd element: 'alpha', 'beta', 'rc', 'final'
 # 'final' has 0 as the last element
-version_info = (1, 7, 0, 'beta', 0)
+version_info = (1, 7, 0, 'beta', 1)
 
 package_dir = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))