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-## Release 0.8.0 (development release)
+## Release 0.7.1
 
 ### Contributors
 
 This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
 
+- [Alan Martin](https://github.com/alan-emartin)
+
+### Bug fixes
+
+* fixed an issue with the `command_palette_enabled` and `search_on_pennylane` options
+  having falsey values, big thanks to [Mikhail Andrenkov](https://github.com/Mandrenkov).
+  [(#60)](https://github.com/XanaduAI/xanadu-sphinx-theme/pull/60)
+
 ## Release 0.7.0
 
 ### Contributors
 
-This release contains contributions from (in alphabetical order):
 
 [Alan Martin](https://github.com/alan-emartin),