diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 43bdb02..f9752e5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+New in 0.7.9
+============
+* Fixed linking in darwin [Iain, Marco; !5]
+* Added man page for notify-send [Jan; !6]
+* Dropped autotools [Jan; !11]
+
+Contributors:
+  Iain Lane, Jan Tojnar, Marco Trevisan
+
 New in 0.7.8
 ============
 * Support meson build system [Marco; !3]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5063fe5..088b7ed 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('libnotify',
   'c',
-  version: '0.7.8',
+  version: '0.7.9',
   meson_version: '>= 0.47.0')
 
 gnome = import('gnome')