diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ed5b2b03..fc58ce48 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 <p align="center">
 <h1 align="center">Resty</h1>
-<p align="center">Simple REST and HTTP client library for Go (inspired by Ruby rest-client)</p>
+<p align="center">Simple HTTP and REST client library for Go (inspired by Ruby rest-client)</p>
 <p align="center"><a href="#features">Features</a> section describes in detail about Resty capabilities</p>
 </p>
 <p align="center">
-<p align="center"><a href="https://travis-ci.org/go-resty/resty"><img src="https://travis-ci.org/go-resty/resty.svg?branch=master" alt="Build Status"></a> <a href="https://codecov.io/gh/go-resty/resty/branch/master"><img src="https://codecov.io/gh/go-resty/resty/branch/master/graph/badge.svg" alt="Code Coverage"></a> <a href="https://goreportcard.com/report/go-resty/resty"><img src="https://goreportcard.com/badge/go-resty/resty" alt="Go Report Card"></a> <a href="https://github.com/go-resty/resty/releases/latest"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/version-1.6-blue.svg" alt="Release Version"></a> <a href="https://godoc.org/github.com/go-resty/resty"><img src="https://godoc.org/github.com/go-resty/resty?status.svg" alt="GoDoc"></a> <a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/license/go-resty/resty.svg" alt="License"></a></p>
+<p align="center"><a href="https://travis-ci.org/go-resty/resty"><img src="https://travis-ci.org/go-resty/resty.svg?branch=master" alt="Build Status"></a> <a href="https://codecov.io/gh/go-resty/resty/branch/master"><img src="https://codecov.io/gh/go-resty/resty/branch/master/graph/badge.svg" alt="Code Coverage"></a> <a href="https://goreportcard.com/report/go-resty/resty"><img src="https://goreportcard.com/badge/go-resty/resty" alt="Go Report Card"></a> <a href="https://github.com/go-resty/resty/releases/latest"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/version-1.7.0-blue.svg" alt="Release Version"></a> <a href="https://godoc.org/github.com/go-resty/resty"><img src="https://godoc.org/github.com/go-resty/resty?status.svg" alt="GoDoc"></a> <a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/license/go-resty/resty.svg" alt="License"></a></p>
 </p>
 
 ## News
 
   * [Collecting Inputs for Resty v2.0](https://github.com/go-resty/resty/issues/166)
-  * v1.6 [released](https://github.com/go-resty/resty/releases/latest) and tagged on May 28, 2018.
+  * v1.7.0 [released](https://github.com/go-resty/resty/releases/latest) and tagged on Jul 04, 2018.
   * v1.0 released - Resty's first version was released on Sep 15, 2015 then it grew gradually as a very handy and helpful library. Its been a two years; `v1.0` was released on Sep 25, 2017. I'm very thankful to Resty users and its [contributors](https://github.com/go-resty/resty/graphs/contributors).
 
 ## Features
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     * goroutine concurrent safe
     * REST and HTTP modes
     * Debug mode - clean and informative logging presentation
-    * Gzip - Go does it automatically also resty fallback handling too
+    * Gzip - Go does it automatically also resty has fallback handling too
     * Works fine with `HTTP/2` and `HTTP/1.1`
   * [Bazel support](#bazel-support)
   * Easily mock resty for testing, [for e.g.](#mocking-http-requests-using-httpmock-library)
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Please refer section [Versioning](#versioning) for detailed info.
 ##### go.mod
 
 ```bash
-require github.com/go-resty/resty v1.6
+require github.com/go-resty/resty v1.7.0
 ```
 
 ##### go get
diff --git a/resty.go b/resty.go
index 66c07c5f..98bfd208 100644
--- a/resty.go
+++ b/resty.go
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 package resty
 
 // Version # of resty
-const Version = "1.7-edge"
+const Version = "1.7"