diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: rmarkdown
 Type: Package
 Title: Dynamic Documents for R
-Version: 1.6.0.9011
+Version: 1.7
 Authors@R: c(
   person("JJ", "Allaire", role = "aut", email = "jj@rstudio.com"),
     person("Yihui", "Xie", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "xie@yihui.name", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),
diff --git a/inst/NEWS b/inst/NEWS
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--- a/inst/NEWS
+++ b/inst/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-rmarkdown 1.7 (unreleased)
+rmarkdown 1.7
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 * Fixed an issue with `df_print: paged` where row names where not printed and