diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f9cff0d91..148e9cb9c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,12 +1,25 @@
 # Changelog
 ## Unreleased
+
+### Features
+...
+### Fixes
+...
+### Deprecations 
+...
+### Breaking Changes
+...
+
+
+## 7.0.0
+
 ### Features
 - You can now specify a `hybrid_index` when creating an index for the document index to use hybrid (semantic and keyword) search.
 - `min_score` and `max_results` are now optional parameters in `DocumentIndexClient.SearchQuery`.
 - `k` is now an optional parameter in `DocumentIndexRetriever`.
 - List all indexes of a namespace with `DocumentIndexClient.list_indexes`.
 - Remove an index from a namespace with `DocumentIndexClient.delete_index`.
-- `ChatModel` now inherits from `ControlModel`.
+- `ChatModel` now inherits from `ControlModel`. Although we recommend to use the new chat interface, you can use the `Pharia1ChatModel` with tasks that rely on `ControlModel` now.
 
 ### Fixes
 - `DocumentIndexClient` now properly sets `chunk_overlap` when creating an index configuration.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f25ae2d5a..5f5d1a401 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "intelligence-layer"
-version = "6.0.0"
+version = "7.0.0"
 description = ""
 authors = ["Aleph Alpha Engineering <engineering@aleph-alpha.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"