diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 77bde2b..66578aa 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 Changes for Perl extension DBD-SQLite
 
+1.70 2021-08-01
+    - Switched to a production version
+
 1.69_02 2021-07-30
     - Fix doc to use the correct attribute with sqlite_ (GH#86, eekboek++)
     - Modify the fix to silence the sqlite_unicode warning not to check
diff --git a/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm b/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
index fb861b8..70a55e3 100644
--- a/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
+++ b/lib/DBD/SQLite.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use strict;
 use DBI   1.57 ();
 use XSLoader ();
 
-our $VERSION = '1.69_02';
+our $VERSION = '1.70';
 
 # sqlite_version cache (set in the XS bootstrap)
 our ($sqlite_version, $sqlite_version_number);
diff --git a/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm b/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm
index e92ca89..ac72ce9 100644
--- a/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm
+++ b/lib/DBD/SQLite/VirtualTable.pm
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Scalar::Util    qw/weaken/;
 
-our $VERSION = '1.69_02';
+our $VERSION = '1.70';
 our @ISA;