diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 82a42cec..d4013271 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "langbot-plugin"
-version = "0.7.8"
+version = "0.7.9"
 description = "This package contains the SDK, CLI for building plugins for LangBot, plus the runtime for hosting LangBot plugins"
 readme = "README.md"
 authors = [
diff --git a/src/langbot_plugin/version.py b/src/langbot_plugin/version.py
index 4e27eedb..fe7c60e8 100644
--- a/src/langbot_plugin/version.py
+++ b/src/langbot_plugin/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.7.7"
+__version__ = "0.7.9"
diff --git a/tests/packaging/test_release_metadata.py b/tests/packaging/test_release_metadata.py
index d9a74e25..5029e11e 100644
--- a/tests/packaging/test_release_metadata.py
+++ b/tests/packaging/test_release_metadata.py
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ def test_stable_release_metadata_is_consistent() -> None:
         (root / "src/langbot_plugin/version.py").read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
     )
 
-    assert project["project"]["version"] == "0.7.7"
-    assert source_version == '__version__ = "0.7.7"'
+    version = project["project"]["version"]
+    assert source_version == f'__version__ = "{version}"'