From bef54029e6498619417a2314054cc513388344b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justintime50 <39606064+Justintime50@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 09:36:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] chore: prep v7.8.1 for release

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 2 +-
 VERSION      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ae3a68b..cb9cf87 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
-## Next Release
+## v7.8.1 (2026-11-09)
 
 - Fixes response hooks raising `NameError` when an HTTP body is not JSON
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 09a6d30..a8d1f4f 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.8.0
+7.8.1