diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e763f38..9d07089 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 /xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.6.1-src.tar.bz2
 /xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.6.2-src.tar.bz2
 /xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.7.0-src.tar.bz2
+/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.7.1-src.tar.bz2
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 8cc8fd3..90ed653 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.7.0-src.tar.bz2) = a41ce1c34db25d573fc39deead11a0945df0c63b3ce64f11a2c03664a91fd206b7f39352f20521c9e73789b9f723d710a07d20fbb2e1def09fb1d073a9adbaff
+SHA512 (xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin-1.7.1-src.tar.bz2) = 38202be39bdbc4bb55793e1a6711d99dcf4b89cb6eadb3ed07f3e2cdfb7ac51e1f1ab49a0f3080f25fc85e95c98ffcfec903c44fc7162ed5f021303a6e2af07a
diff --git a/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.spec b/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.spec
index 62c3508..ed2e832 100644
--- a/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.spec
+++ b/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Name:		xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin		
-Version:	1.7.0
-Release:	2%{?dist}
+Name:		xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
+Version:	1.7.1
+Release:	1%{?dist}
 Summary:	An alternate application launcher for Xfce
 
 License:	GPLv2+
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ fi
 %{_mandir}/man1/xfce4-popup-whiskermenu.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Mar 02 2017 Mukundan Ragavan <nonamedotc@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.1-1
+- Update to 1.7.1
+
 * Sat Feb 11 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild