diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f06d0bb..7a876b9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@
 /mate-user-admin-1.4.2.tar.gz
 /mate-user-admin-1.5.1.tar.gz
 /mate-user-admin-1.6.0.tar.gz
+/mate-user-admin-1.7.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/mate-user-admin.spec b/mate-user-admin.spec
index 5068f57..b7d52b4 100644
--- a/mate-user-admin.spec
+++ b/mate-user-admin.spec
@@ -4,14 +4,15 @@
 %define _legacy_common_support 1
 
 Name:          mate-user-admin
-Version:       1.6.0
-Release:       3%{?dist}
+Version:       1.7.0
+Release:       1%{?dist}
 Summary:       User management tool
 License:       GPLv3+ 
 URL:           https://github.com/zhuyaliang/%{project_name}
 
 # downloading the tarball
 # spectool -g mate-user-admin.spec
+# wget https://github.com/zhuyaliang/user-admin/archive/refs/tags/v1.7.0.tar.gz -O mate-user-admin-1.7.0.tar.gz
 Source0:       %url/archive/%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 
 BuildRequires: accountsservice-devel
@@ -64,6 +65,9 @@ desktop-file-install                               \
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jan 26 2023 Wolfgang Ulbrich <fedora@raveit.de> - 1.7.0-1
+- update to 1.7.0
+
 * Thu Jan 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.0-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 4ed050c..9f8e429 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (mate-user-admin-1.6.0.tar.gz) = f52000a0f065e3a81dd2f31a8ebe97198711b556d8b329082484d78faadc8d7d7599b4613a07b7c80b654e5f478ef070d09b62f6ee901005d937abfc05109d53
+SHA512 (mate-user-admin-1.7.0.tar.gz) = 78f095c584863ee993155ce5eed81e21d55fd93a24b557c2b104b2cbab0f7676df96829d8edefed7e516e790259abcc7ce910063aa9254679deab5c107e1f28e