diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6290a438..034238e7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,12 +2,19 @@
 
 We follow [Semantic Versions](https://semver.org/) starting at the `0.14.0` release.
 
-## v1.7.0 (2024-09-01)
+## 1.7.1 (2024-09-01)
+
+## What's Changed
+* Restore backward compatibility for Attribute creation with invalid slugs by @Dresdn in https://github.com/jazzband/django-eav2/pull/639
+
+## 1.7.0 (2024-09-01)
 
 ### What's Changed
 
 - Enhance slug validation for Python identifier compliance
 - Migrate to ruff
+- Drop support for Django 3.2
+- Add support for Django 5.1
 
 ## 1.6.1 (2024-06-23)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4ab5dae2..c7a61e3f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "django-eav2"
 description = "Entity-Attribute-Value storage for Django"
-version = "1.7.0"
+version = "1.7.1"
 license = "GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Version 3"
 packages = [
   { include = "eav" }