diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 49f3de761..890b047fe 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [project]
 name = "graphrag"
 # Maintainers: do not change the version here manually, use ./scripts/release.sh
-version = "2.7.0"
+version = "2.7.1"
 description = "GraphRAG: A graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system."
 authors = [
     {name = "Alonso Guevara Fernández", email = "alonsog@microsoft.com"},
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 1713ba67a..50e44c560 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "graphrag"
-version = "2.7.0"
+version = "2.7.1"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "aiofiles" },