diff --git a/app/builtin-pages/views/start.js b/app/builtin-pages/views/start.js
index c2bea84ca0..9d2a0732df 100644
--- a/app/builtin-pages/views/start.js
+++ b/app/builtin-pages/views/start.js
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ import {pluralize} from '../../lib/strings'
 
 const colorThief = new ColorThief()
 
-const LATEST_VERSION = 7008 // semver where major*1mm and minor*1k; thus 3.2.1 = 3002001
+const LATEST_VERSION = 7009 // semver where major*1mm and minor*1k; thus 3.2.1 = 3002001
 const WELCOME_URL = 'https://beakerbrowser.com/docs/using-beaker/'
-const RELEASE_NOTES_URL = 'https://beakerbrowser.com/releases/0-7-8/?updated=true'
+const RELEASE_NOTES_URL = 'https://beakerbrowser.com/releases/0-7-9/?updated=true'
 
 // globals
 // =
diff --git a/app/package.json b/app/package.json
index dd071526b0..2ca39089bb 100644
--- a/app/package.json
+++ b/app/package.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "productName": "Beaker Browser",
   "description": "An Experimental Peer-to-Peer Web Browser.",
   "homepage": "https://beakerbrowser.com/",
-  "version": "0.7.8",
+  "version": "0.7.9",
   "author": "Paul Frazee <pfrazee@gmail.com>",
   "copyright": "© 2017, Blue Link Labs",
   "main": "background-process.build.js",