diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 32ed764..d583420 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ## Tools development version
 
+## Tools 0.7.1
+
 - minor documentation improvements. (#197, #198, @kelly-sovacool)
 - `ccbr-hooks detect-absolute-paths`: Ignore self-closing HTML tags to avoid
   false positives from `/>`. (#228, @kelly-sovacool, @copilot)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f5fab9f..95327f5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ guidelines](https://CCBR.github.io/Tools/CONTRIBUTING).
 Please cite this software if you use it in a publication:
 
 > Sovacool K., Koparde V., Kuhn S., Tandon M., and Huse S. (2026). CCBR
-> Tools: Utilities for CCBR Bioinformatics Software (version v0.7.0).
+> Tools: Utilities for CCBR Bioinformatics Software (version v0.7.1).
 > DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13377166 URL: https://ccbr.github.io/Tools/
 
 ### Bibtex entry
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ Please cite this software if you use it in a publication:
 @misc{YourReferenceHere,
 author = {Sovacool, Kelly and Koparde, Vishal and Kuhn, Skyler and Tandon, Mayank and Huse, Susan},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.13377166},
-month = {6},
+month = {9},
 title = {CCBR Tools: Utilities for CCBR Bioinformatics Software},
 url = {https://ccbr.github.io/Tools/},
 year = {2026}
diff --git a/src/ccbr_tools/CITATION.cff b/src/ccbr_tools/CITATION.cff
index ea85ba6..19918dd 100644
--- a/src/ccbr_tools/CITATION.cff
+++ b/src/ccbr_tools/CITATION.cff
@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@ identifiers:
     type: doi
     value: 10.5281/zenodo.13377166
 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13377166
-version: v0.7.0
-date-released: "2026-06-10"
+version: v0.7.1
+date-released: "2026-09-17"
diff --git a/src/ccbr_tools/VERSION b/src/ccbr_tools/VERSION
index e1bde80..c0ab427 100644
--- a/src/ccbr_tools/VERSION
+++ b/src/ccbr_tools/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.7.0-dev
+0.7.1-dev