diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 90a46fe..a1f6254 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 * Update IMDb-pie 5.6.3 (4220e83) to 5.6.4 (f695e87)
 * Update MsgPack 0.6.0 (197e307) to 0.6.1 (737f08a)
 * Update profilehooks module 1.10.1 (fdbf19d) to 1.11.0 (e17f378)
+* Update PySocks 1.6.8 (b687a34) to 1.7.0 (91dcdf0)
 * Update Requests library 2.21.0 (e52932c) to 2.22.0 (aeda65b)
 * Update scandir 1.9.0 (9ab3d1f) to 1.10.0 (982e6ba)
 * Update Six compatibility library 1.12.0 (d927b9e) to 1.12.0 (8da94b8)
diff --git a/lib/socks/socks.py b/lib/socks/socks.py
index 7aed037..d678fa8 100644
--- a/lib/socks/socks.py
+++ b/lib/socks/socks.py
@@ -1,59 +1,3 @@
-"""SocksiPy - Python SOCKS module.
-
-Copyright 2006 Dan-Haim. All rights reserved.
-
-Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
-modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
-1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
-   list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
-   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
-   and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-3. Neither the name of Dan Haim nor the names of his contributors may be used
-   to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
-   prior written permission.
-
-THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY DAN HAIM "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
-WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
-MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
-EVENT SHALL DAN HAIM OR HIS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
-INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA
-OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
-LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
-OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
-
-This module provides a standard socket-like interface for Python
-for tunneling connections through SOCKS proxies.
-
-===============================================================================
-
-Minor modifications made by Christopher Gilbert (http://motomastyle.com/)
-for use in PyLoris (http://pyloris.sourceforge.net/)
-
-Minor modifications made by Mario Vilas (http://breakingcode.wordpress.com/)
-mainly to merge bug fixes found in Sourceforge
-
-Modifications made by Anorov (https://github.com/Anorov)
--Forked and renamed to PySocks
--Fixed issue with HTTP proxy failure checking (same bug that was in the
- old ___recvall() method)
--Included SocksiPyHandler (sockshandler.py), to be used as a urllib2 handler,
- courtesy of e000 (https://github.com/e000):
- https://gist.github.com/869791#file_socksipyhandler.py
--Re-styled code to make it readable
-    -Aliased PROXY_TYPE_SOCKS5 -> SOCKS5 etc.
-    -Improved exception handling and output
-    -Removed irritating use of sequence indexes, replaced with tuple unpacked
-     variables
-    -Fixed up Python 3 bytestring handling - chr(0x03).encode() -> b"\x03"
-    -Other general fixes
--Added clarification that the HTTP proxy connection method only supports
- CONNECT-style tunneling HTTP proxies
--Various small bug fixes
-"""
-
 from base64 import b64encode
 try:
     from collections.abc import Callable
@@ -69,7 +13,7 @@ import socket
 import struct
 import sys
 
-__version__ = "1.6.7"
+__version__ = "1.7.0"
 
 
 if os.name == "nt" and sys.version_info < (3, 0):