diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fa7957f3..cd6636b6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Change-log
 ==========
 
+**v1.7** @ 2017-01-12
+- see [Whats new](https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/blob/master/WHATS_NEW.md)
+
 **v1.6.2** @ 2016-02-02
 
 new features:
diff --git a/WHATS_NEW.md b/WHATS_NEW.md
index 462a7cc0..04e27c30 100644
--- a/WHATS_NEW.md
+++ b/WHATS_NEW.md
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 WHATS NEW
 ==========
 ------------------------------
-<b>??</b> new release **v1.7**
+<b>2017-01-12</b> new release **v1.7**
 - move packages to [graphhopper.com](https://graphhopper.com/) 
 - change license from GPLv3 to [Apache v2](https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/blob/master/LICENSE.md) to make it even more attractive for other developers and their commercial applications
 - pushed binaries to maven central, i.e. made it better accessible and we get rid of our own repo
 - outsourced various io operations, e.g. reading writing problem/algorithm to a new module called [jsprit-io](https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/tree/master/jsprit-io). this way the core is even more lightweight and less dependent on other libraries
 - switched from log4j to the [logger facade slf4j](http://www.slf4j.org/) to allow developers to plugin the logger of their choice
 - made it [much more memory efficient](https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/issues/230) for large problems
+- fixed [memory leak](https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/pull/282)
 - add [priority feature](https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/issues/242)
 - [refine exceptions](https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/issues/251) to get a clear separation of IllegalArgument and [IllegalState](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12698275/whats-the-intended-use-of-illegalstateexception)
+- many further improvements (see https://github.com/graphhopper/jsprit/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed)
 
 <b>2016-02-02</b> new release **v1.6.2**
 
diff --git a/docs/Getting-Started.md b/docs/Getting-Started.md
index c49fe090..ac5af692 100644
--- a/docs/Getting-Started.md
+++ b/docs/Getting-Started.md
@@ -15,10 +15,12 @@ If you want to use the latest release of jsprit-core, add the following lines to
 <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;com.graphhopper&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;jsprit-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
-   &lt;version&gt;1.7-RC1&lt;/version&gt;
+   &lt;version&gt;{version}&lt;/version&gt;
 &lt;/dependency&gt;
 </code></pre>
 
+Find the latest versions here: [mvn repository](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.graphhopper/jsprit-core).
+
 ####Build yourself
 If you want to build the master branch yourself, do this: