diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 2202414fbf9276bc9584413639af5f4ee7e81184..8402b13574b6e18882f260a1d884c6d2b102ea90 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+1.1.7 new year release #2
+bugfixes:
+* hide debugging entries in settings in releases
+
 1.1.6 new year release
 features:
 * updated snowflake, tor, openvpn
diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index e7d99127f17cfb173a4f13fe7f197c56a5a70910..345d58f99e68a9ac21873f2cafa759a63dc2bfd5 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ android {
     // the factor 1000 is used so that gplay users can upgrade from split apks ((current version number - 1) * 1000) + n
     // to extracted bundle apks, supplied by google
     // however we don't calculate the versionCode here, because F-Droid doesn't like that
-    versionCode 167000
-    versionName "1.1.6"
+    versionCode 168000
+    versionName "1.1.7"
     minSdkVersion 21
     targetSdkVersion 31
     vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true