maint: bump version to 1.7.0

* DESCRIPTION, src/configure.ac: update version/dates

* NEWS: add 1.7 changelog entry

Author: lostbard

DESCRIPTION

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name: Windows
-Version: 1.6.5
-Date: 2025-02-01
+Version: 1.7.0
+Date: 2026-01-23
 Author: Andy Adler <alder@ncf.ca>, John Donoghue <john.donoghue@ieee.org>
 Maintainer: John Donoghue <john.donoghue@ieee.org>
 Title: Windows functions

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Summary of important user-visible changes for Windows 1.7.0
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* added new functions:
+  - actxGetRunningServer
+  - @octave_com_object/isprop
+  - @octave_com_object/fieldnames
+
+* Minor doc updates
+
 Summary of important user-visible changes for Windows 1.6.5
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 

src/configure.ac

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ dnl and the various configure.add files in the source tree.  Edit
 dnl configure.base and reprocess rather than modifying ./configure.
 
 ### Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Olaf Till <i7tiol@t-online.de>
-### Copyright (C) 2020-2025 John Donoghue <john.donoghue@ieee.org>
+### Copyright (C) 2020-2026 John Donoghue <john.donoghue@ieee.org>
 ###
 ### This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 ### modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ dnl configure.base and reprocess rather than modifying ./configure.
 dnl autoconf 2.13 certainly doesn't work! What is the minimum requirement?
 AC_PREREQ(2.2)
 
-AC_INIT([windows],[1.6.5])
+AC_INIT([windows],[1.7.0])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 
 # Avoid warnings for redefining AH-generated preprocessor symbols of