bump the master to 170

Issue-ID: SO-2760

Signed-off-by: seshukm <seshu.kumar.m@huawei.com>
Change-Id: I8af562f2adbbba5e19358f16c5abbbdcdfff6731
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
index 922c4fa..e377fcf 100644
--- a/version.properties
+++ b/version.properties
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # because they are used in Jenkins, whose plug-in doesn't support
 
 major=1
-minor=6
-patch=1
+minor=7
+patch=0
 
 base_version=${major}.${minor}.${patch}