diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 251dce00f..35b5e6198 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 > If a release contains only bugfix, it is marked as a 'bugfix release'.
 > Otherwise, the changelog entries highlight only new or changed functionality.
 
+## Version 0.7.9
+- Adds the `morse` unit for Morse code encoding and decoding.
+
 ## Version 0.7.8
 - The `u16` unit is no longer limited to the little-endian variant of UTF-16.
 - The `snip` unit was given a new argument `--stream` which allows each offset to be relative to the end of the previously extracted data.
diff --git a/refinery/__init__.py b/refinery/__init__.py
index 00a7ab90b..57b8f5663 100644
--- a/refinery/__init__.py
+++ b/refinery/__init__.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 4. `refinery.units`: writing custom units, add command-line arguments, and how to use refinery
    units within Python code.
 """
-__version__ = '0.7.8'
+__version__ = '0.7.9'
 __distribution__ = 'binary-refinery'
 
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Type, TypeVar, Iterable