diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a97d01e4a..8232fe945 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,7 +16,15 @@ in order to get warned about deprecated features used in your code.
 
 This can also be enabled programmatically with `warnings.simplefilter('default', DeprecationWarning)`.
 
-## [2.7.8] - Not released yet
+## [2.7.9] - Not released yet
+### Added
+
+### Fixed
+
+### Changed
+
+
+## [2.7.8] - 2024-02-09
 ### Added
 * support for `<path>` elements in SVG `<clipPath>` elements
 * support for `bidirectional` text shaping - thanks to @andersonhc
diff --git a/docs/overrides/main.html b/docs/overrides/main.html
index ef2dd9069..918186aab 100644
--- a/docs/overrides/main.html
+++ b/docs/overrides/main.html
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 {% block announce %}
 <center>
-  <a href="https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/releases/tag/2.7.7">
-    New release: 2.7.7 on 2023/12/10
+  <a href="https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/releases/tag/2.7.8">
+    New release: 2.7.8 on 2024/02/09
   </a>
 </center>
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/fpdf/fpdf.py b/fpdf/fpdf.py
index f2d6eb5fe..664900705 100644
--- a/fpdf/fpdf.py
+++ b/fpdf/fpdf.py
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class Image:
 from .util import get_scale_factor, Padding
 
 # Public global variables:
-FPDF_VERSION = "2.7.7"
+FPDF_VERSION = "2.7.8"
 PAGE_FORMATS = {
     "a3": (841.89, 1190.55),
     "a4": (595.28, 841.89),