diff --git a/tpot2/_version.py b/tpot2/_version.py
index 9e5fdbb4..bb1511da 100644
--- a/tpot2/_version.py
+++ b/tpot2/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.1.7-alpha'
+__version__ = '0.1.7a0'
diff --git a/tpot2/tests/test_estimators.py b/tpot2/tests/test_estimators.py
index e663ead5..cf6b7f21 100644
--- a/tpot2/tests/test_estimators.py
+++ b/tpot2/tests/test_estimators.py
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ def test_tpot_estimator_predict(tpot_estimator_with_pipeline,sample_dataset):
     assert len(y_pred) == len(X_test)
     assert tpot_estimator_with_pipeline.fitted_pipeline_ is not None
 
-
 def test_tpot_estimator_generations_type():
     with pytest.raises(TypeError):
         tpot2.TPOTEstimator(generations="two", population_size=10, verbosity=2)