From c9ef9219a265e0bbe3a311cca7d28aa02b7517d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Brian P. Walenz" <thebri@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 08:46:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version to 1.7.

---
 documentation/source/conf.py | 4 ++--
 src/canu_version_update.pl   | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/documentation/source/conf.py b/documentation/source/conf.py
index 9860a1468..17b1bf55a 100644
--- a/documentation/source/conf.py
+++ b/documentation/source/conf.py
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '1.6'
+version = '1.7'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.6'
+release = '1.7'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/src/canu_version_update.pl b/src/canu_version_update.pl
index 919c1419a..e4a51d9a5 100755
--- a/src/canu_version_update.pl
+++ b/src/canu_version_update.pl
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
 
 my $cwd = getcwd();
 
-my $label    = "snapshot";     #  Change this to 'release' just before making a release.
-my $major    = "1";            #  ...and this too.
-my $minor    = "6";            #  ...and this too.
+my $label    = "snapshot";     #  Automagically set to 'release' for releases.
+my $major    = "1";            #  Bump before release.
+my $minor    = "7";            #  Bump before release.
 
 my $commits  = "0";
 my $hash1    = undef;          #  This from 'git describe'