diff --git a/benches/Cargo.toml b/benches/Cargo.toml
index eb2784dc50f..2b98cfd3934 100644
--- a/benches/Cargo.toml
+++ b/benches/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.5.0", path = "../tokio", features = ["full"] }
 bencher = "0.1.5"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-tokio-util = { version = "0.6.6", path = "../tokio-util", features = ["full"] }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7.0", path = "../tokio-util", features = ["full"] }
 tokio-stream = { path = "../tokio-stream" }
 
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index 1d155a2b17b..7491c81c831 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 # [dependencies] instead.
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1.0.0", path = "../tokio",features = ["full", "tracing"] }
-tokio-util = { version = "0.6.3", path = "../tokio-util",features = ["full"] }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7.0", path = "../tokio-util",features = ["full"] }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1", path = "../tokio-stream" }
 
 tracing = "0.1"
diff --git a/tokio-stream/Cargo.toml b/tokio-stream/Cargo.toml
index 5b2535a3371..91a86bbbba5 100644
--- a/tokio-stream/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio-stream/Cargo.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ signal = ["tokio/signal"]
 futures-core = { version = "0.3.0" }
 pin-project-lite = "0.2.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.8.0", path = "../tokio", features = ["sync"] }
-tokio-util = { version = "0.6.3", path = "../tokio-util", optional = true }
+tokio-util = { version = "0.7.0", path = "../tokio-util", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tokio = { version = "1.2.0", path = "../tokio", features = ["full", "test-util"] }
diff --git a/tokio-util/Cargo.toml b/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
index 85df32c2655..00fc018cdce 100644
--- a/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tokio-util/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ name = "tokio-util"
 # When releasing to crates.io:
 # - Remove path dependencies
 # - Update CHANGELOG.md.
-# - Create "tokio-util-0.6.x" git tag.
-version = "0.6.9"
+# - Create "tokio-util-0.7.x" git tag.
+version = "0.7.0"
 edition = "2018"
 rust-version = "1.46"
 authors = ["Tokio Contributors <team@tokio.rs>"]
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ description = """
 Additional utilities for working with Tokio.
 """
 categories = ["asynchronous"]
+publish = false
 
 [features]
 # No features on by default