diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 3af37b3d4..eb9c6bceb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Other:
 - Cleaned up utils.views to increase performance when fetching single objects
   from the database for a view (#1378).
 - Fixed bug on projector which was not updated when an object was deleted.
+- Fixed bug and show special characters in PDF like ampersand (#1415).
 - Updated pdf.js to 1.0.907.
 - Improve the usage of bsmselect jquery plugin.
 - Updated translations.
diff --git a/openslides/__init__.py b/openslides/__init__.py
index 58b5f8b81..f9a9054d5 100644
--- a/openslides/__init__.py
+++ b/openslides/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-VERSION = (1, 6, 2, 'final', 1)  # During development it is the next release
+VERSION = (1, 7, 0, 'final', 1)  # During development it is the next release
 RELEASE = False