diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a0f184ae7..63f85036b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ in order to get warned about deprecated features used in your code.
 
 This can also be enabled programmatically with `warnings.simplefilter('default', DeprecationWarning)`.
 
-## [2.7.0] - Not released yet
+## [2.7.0] - 2023-03-27
 ### Added
 - new method [`FPDF.table()`](https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fpdf.html#fpdf.fpdf.FPDF.table): [documentation](https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/Tables.html)
 - [`FPDF.image()`](https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fpdf.html#fpdf.fpdf.FPDF.image) has a new `keep_aspect_ratio` optional boolean parameter, to fit it inside a given rectangle: [documentation](https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/Images.html#fitting-an-image-inside-a-rectangle)
diff --git a/docs/Development.md b/docs/Development.md
index 9b5fb4321..ff120bc2c 100644
--- a/docs/Development.md
+++ b/docs/Development.md
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Ask maintainers through comments if some errors in the pipeline seem obscure to
 ### Release checklist
 1. complete `CHANGELOG.md` and add the version & date of the new release
 2. bump `FPDF_VERSION` in `fpdf/fpdf.py`.
-Also (optionnal, once every year), update `contributors/contributors-map-small.png` based on https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/contributors.html
+Also (optionnal, once every year), update `contributors/contributors-map-small.png` based on <https://pyfpdf.github.io/fpdf2/contributors.html>
 3. `git commit` & `git push`
 4. check that [the GitHub Actions succeed](https://github.com/PyFPDF/fpdf2/actions), and that [a new release appears on Pypi](https://pypi.org/project/fpdf2/#history)
 5. perform a [GitHub release](https://github.com/PyFPDF/fpdf2/releases), taking the description from the `CHANGELOG.md`.
diff --git a/fpdf/fpdf.py b/fpdf/fpdf.py
index dd4359553..27bd899cb 100644
--- a/fpdf/fpdf.py
+++ b/fpdf/fpdf.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class Image:
 )
 
 # Public global variables:
-FPDF_VERSION = "2.6.1"
+FPDF_VERSION = "2.7.0"
 PAGE_FORMATS = {
     "a3": (841.89, 1190.55),
     "a4": (595.28, 841.89),