diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index a8005e3f..0f51515b 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
 ## History / Changelog
 
 
+### 1.7.0
+
+Extraction:
+- improved `html2txt()` function
+
+Downloads:
+- add advanced `fetch_response()` function
+→ pending deprecation for `fetch_url(decode=False)`
+
+Maintenance:
+- support for LXML v5+ (#484 by @knit-bee, #485)
+- update [htmldate](https://github.com/adbar/htmldate/releases/tag/v1.7.0)
+
+
 ### 1.6.4
 
 Maintenance:
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index a82de3c6..ba584a29 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Evaluation and alternatives
 
 Trafilatura consistently outperforms other open-source libraries in text extraction benchmarks, showcasing its efficiency and accuracy in extracting web content. The extractor tries to strike a balance between limiting noise and including all valid parts.
 
-For more detailed results see the `benchmark <https://trafilatura.readthedocs.io/en/latest/evaluation.html>`_. The results can be reproduced, see the `evaluation readme <https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/blob/master/tests/README.rst>_` for instructions.
+For more detailed results see the `benchmark <https://trafilatura.readthedocs.io/en/latest/evaluation.html>`_. The results can be reproduced, see the `evaluation readme <https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura/blob/master/tests/README.rst>`_ for instructions.
 
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 750 documents, 2236 text & 2250 boilerplate segments (2022-05-18), Python 3.8
diff --git a/docs/usage-python.rst b/docs/usage-python.rst
index a2492e42..7040fd86 100644
--- a/docs/usage-python.rst
+++ b/docs/usage-python.rst
@@ -313,18 +313,18 @@ The function ``bare_extraction`` can be used to bypass output conversion, it ret
 Raw HTTP response objects
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-The ``fetch_url()`` function can pass a urllib3 response object straight to the extraction by setting the optional ``decode`` argument to ``False``.
+The ``fetch_response()`` function can pass a response object straight to the extraction.
 
 This can be useful to get the final redirection URL with ``response.url`` and then pass is directly as a URL argument to the extraction function:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
     # necessary components
-    >>> from trafilatura import fetch_url, bare_extraction
+    >>> from trafilatura import fetch_response, bare_extraction
     # load an example
-    >>> response = fetch_url("https://www.example.org", decode=False)
+    >>> response = fetch_response("https://www.example.org")
     # perform extract() or bare_extraction() on Trafilatura's response object
-    >>> bare_extraction(response, url=response.url) # here is the redirection URL
+    >>> bare_extraction(response.data, url=response.url)  # here is the redirection URL
 
 
 LXML objects
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 54e93ffa..7dbc52ad 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ def get_long_description():
     "all": [
         "brotli",
         "cchardet >= 2.1.7; python_version < '3.11'",  # build issue
-        "faust-cchardet >= 2.1.18; python_version >= '3.11'",  # fix for build
-        "htmldate[speed] >= 1.6.0",
+        "faust-cchardet >= 2.1.19; python_version >= '3.11'",
+        "htmldate[speed] >= 1.7.0",
         "py3langid >= 0.2.2",
         "pycurl >= 7.45.2",
     ],
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def get_long_description():
         "charset_normalizer >= 3.0.1; python_version < '3.7'",
         "charset_normalizer >= 3.2.0; python_version >= '3.7'",
         "courlan >= 0.9.5",
-        "htmldate >= 1.6.1",
+        "htmldate >= 1.7.0",
         "importlib_metadata; python_version < '3.8'",
         "justext >= 3.0.0",
         # see tests on Github Actions
diff --git a/trafilatura/__init__.py b/trafilatura/__init__.py
index 190b9385..5ba69a39 100644
--- a/trafilatura/__init__.py
+++ b/trafilatura/__init__.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 __author__ = 'Adrien Barbaresi and contributors'
 __license__ = 'GNU GPL v3+'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2019-2024, Adrien Barbaresi'
-__version__ = '1.6.4'
+__version__ = '1.7.0'
 
 
 import logging