From c1f78e5844788d18351d9f9436a4f2704873064a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akshay Rawat <akshay.rawat@checkr.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:39:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Release version 1.7.1

---
 Changelog.md          | 3 +++
 lib/checkr/version.rb | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 21bae0b..5e0ee0c 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## 1.7.1 (2021-08-31)
+* Remove usage of deprecated `URI.escape`  
+
 ## 1.6.1 (2019-07-16)
 
 Features:
diff --git a/lib/checkr/version.rb b/lib/checkr/version.rb
index b637832..d5f8d93 100644
--- a/lib/checkr/version.rb
+++ b/lib/checkr/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Checkr
-  VERSION = '1.7'.freeze
+  VERSION = '1.7.1'.freeze
 end