diff --git a/jupyter_server/_version.py b/jupyter_server/_version.py
index d260b1806a..4cb62321c4 100644
--- a/jupyter_server/_version.py
+++ b/jupyter_server/_version.py
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@
 from jupyter_packaging import get_version_info
 
 # Version string must appear intact for tbump versioning
-__version__ = '1.7.0.dev0'
+__version__ = '1.6.2'
 version_info = get_version_info(__version__)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index aad18428be..e0ee416249 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ignore = ["tbump.toml", ".*", "*.yml", "package-lock.json", "bootstrap*"]
 norecursedirs = "examples/*"
 
 [tool.tbump.version]
-current = "1.7.0.dev0"
+current = "1.6.2"
 regex = '''
   (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)
   ((?P<channel>a|b|rc|.dev)(?P<release>\d+))?