diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 647d37b83..ed4fadfb0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,7 +16,17 @@ in order to get warned about deprecated features used in your code.
 
 This can also be enabled programmatically with `warnings.simplefilter('default', DeprecationWarning)`.
 
-## [2.7.9] - Not released yet
+## [2.8.0] - Not released yet
+### Added
+
+### Fixed
+
+### Changed
+
+### Deprecated
+
+
+## [2.7.9] - 2024-05-17
 ### Added
 * new optional parameter `repeat_headings` for [`FPDF.table()`](https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/fpdf/fpdf.html#fpdf.fpdf.FPDF.table) that indicates whether to print table headings on every page
 * support for overriding paragraph direction on bidirectional text
diff --git a/docs/overrides/main.html b/docs/overrides/main.html
index 918186aab..d0addc4ca 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/2.7.8">
-    New release: 2.7.8 on 2024/02/09
+  <a href="https://github.com/py-pdf/fpdf2/releases/tag/2.7.9">
+    New release: 2.7.9 on 2024/05/17
   </a>
 </center>
 {% endblock %}
diff --git a/fpdf/fpdf.py b/fpdf/fpdf.py
index 31e10cba3..2957a0aa3 100644
--- a/fpdf/fpdf.py
+++ b/fpdf/fpdf.py
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ class Image:
 from .util import get_scale_factor, Padding
 
 # Public global variables:
-FPDF_VERSION = "2.7.8"
+FPDF_VERSION = "2.7.9"
 PAGE_FORMATS = {
     "a3": (841.89, 1190.55),
     "a4": (595.28, 841.89),