diff --git a/qiskit_machine_learning/VERSION.txt b/qiskit_machine_learning/VERSION.txt
index 39e898a4f..7486fdbc5 100644
--- a/qiskit_machine_learning/VERSION.txt
+++ b/qiskit_machine_learning/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.7.1
+0.7.2