diff --git a/python/pyproject.toml b/python/pyproject.toml
index 0fd0c3cc1..1966470a2 100644
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "sglang"
-version = "0.1.6"
+version = "0.1.7"
 description = "A structured generation langauge for LLMs." 
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.8"
diff --git a/python/sglang/__init__.py b/python/sglang/__init__.py
index 1e94eed25..92f7d0c43 100644
--- a/python/sglang/__init__.py
+++ b/python/sglang/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.1.6"
+__version__ = "0.1.7"
 
 from sglang.api import *
 from sglang.global_config import global_config
diff --git a/python/sglang/lang/interpreter.py b/python/sglang/lang/interpreter.py
index a7fffa508..f7427ddea 100644
--- a/python/sglang/lang/interpreter.py
+++ b/python/sglang/lang/interpreter.py
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def run_program_batch(
 
     # Run all programs
     if num_threads == "auto":
-        num_threads = min(64, multiprocessing.cpu_count() * 8)
+        num_threads = max(64, multiprocessing.cpu_count() * 8)
     num_threads = min(num_threads, len(batch_arguments))
 
     if num_threads == 1: