diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 26765dfadada..fc3bf6766c44 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 # Project settings -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [project]
+version = 7.0.0
 name = "YOLOv5"
 description = "Ultralytics YOLOv5 for SOTA object detection, instance segmentation and image classification."
 readme = "README.md"