diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 7645324..7ae3e2c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -12,14 +12,18 @@ The rules for this file:
   * release numbers follow "Semantic Versioning" http://semver.org
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-xx/xx/xx kain88-de
+05/06/18 kain88-de, dotsdl
 
-    * 0.7.0
+    * 0.7.1
 
 Enhancements
 
     * switch pickle protocol for smaller pydata files
 
+Changes
+
+    * internal changes in line with limb-system changes in `datreant.core`
+
 
 
 03/26/16 dotsdl, andreabedini, richardjgowers, orbeckst,
diff --git a/meta.yaml b/meta.yaml
index 31f5fbf..ec18332 100644
--- a/meta.yaml
+++ b/meta.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package:
   name: datreant.data
-  version: "0.6.0"
+  version: "0.7.1"
 
 source:
     path: .
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6c1c278..6c2ee07 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(name='datreant.data',
-      version='0.7.0-dev',
+      version='0.7.1',
       description='convenient data storage and retrieval in HDF5 for Treants',
       author='David Dotson',
       author_email='dotsdl@gmail.com',
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
       license='BSD',
       long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
       install_requires=[
-          'datreant.core',
+          'datreant.core==0.7.1',
           'six',
           'numpy',
           'pandas',
diff --git a/src/datreant/data/__init__.py b/src/datreant/data/__init__.py
index 4b36da8..0cad807 100644
--- a/src/datreant/data/__init__.py
+++ b/src/datreant/data/__init__.py
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 from . import agglimbs
 
 __all__ = ['Treant', 'Group', 'Tree', 'Leaf', 'Bundle']
-__version__ = "0.7.0-dev"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
+__version__ = "0.7.1"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py