diff --git a/cloudcontrol/cli/__init__.py b/cloudcontrol/cli/__init__.py
index 6bbefbe7907667fd4275dc62551278d80c23147f..c96677791596a8967016ecc554cde59584b25d3b 100644
--- a/cloudcontrol/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/cloudcontrol/cli/__init__.py
@@ -45,6 +45,6 @@ canonical_name="cc-cli"
 debug = False
 
 # set version
-version = "6"
+version = "7"
 if version.find("dev") != -1:
     git_version()