diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ff096db..4449576 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ coverage.xml
 .coverage*
 .idea
 .eggs/
+.DS_Store
diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index d13a73f..25ddd07 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,18 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Version 0.7.0
+-------------
+
+May 17, 2020
+
+- method for record metadata extraction has been extracted (``Record.get_metadata()``) to make subclassing easier
+  (https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/pull/38)
+- retryable HTTP status codes and default wait time between retries can be customized (https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/issues/21 https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/pull/41)
+- retry logic has been fixed: ``max_retries`` parameter now refers to no. of retries, not counting the initial request anymore
+- the default number of HTTP retries has been set to 0 (= no retries)
+- fix for https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/pull/39
+
 Version 0.6.5
 -------------
 
@@ -9,7 +21,6 @@ January 12, 2020
 - fix: repr methods where causing an exception on Python 3 (https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/issues/30)
 
 
-
 Version 0.6.4
 -------------
 
@@ -18,7 +29,6 @@ October 2, 2018
 - fix: resumption token with empty body indicates last response (https://github.com/mloesch/sickle/issues/25)
 
 
-
 Version 0.6.3
 -------------
 
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 21f6fbe..afa08f2 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '0.6.5'
+version = '0.7.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 release = version
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1659692..74bedb6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='Sickle',
-    version='0.6.5',
+    version='0.7.0',
     url='http://github.com/mloesch/sickle',
     license='BSD',
     author='Mathias Loesch',
diff --git a/sickle/__init__.py b/sickle/__init__.py
index d6469d7..fb5519b 100644
--- a/sickle/__init__.py
+++ b/sickle/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     :copyright: Copyright 2015 Mathias Loesch
 """
 
-__version__ = '0.6.5'
+__version__ = '0.7.0'
 
 from sickle.response import OAIResponse
 from .app import Sickle