diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 95ab7932e89..7789005ec7f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,20 +1,11 @@
-Release 1.7.8 (in development)
-==============================
-
-Dependencies
-------------
+Release 1.7.8 (released Aug 29, 2018)
+=====================================
 
 Incompatible changes
 --------------------
 
 * The type of ``env.included`` has been changed to dict of set
 
-Deprecated
-----------
-
-Features added
---------------
-
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
 
@@ -25,9 +16,6 @@ Bugs fixed
   generated files
 * #5335: quickstart: escape sequence has been displayed with MacPorts' python
 
-Testing
---------
-
 Release 1.7.7 (released Aug 19, 2018)
 =====================================
 
diff --git a/sphinx/__init__.py b/sphinx/__init__.py
index 7d63364ed2d..1c5cb4ae660 100644
--- a/sphinx/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/__init__.py
@@ -31,13 +31,13 @@
 warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', "'U' mode is deprecated",
                         DeprecationWarning, module='docutils.io')
 
-__version__ = '1.7.8+'
+__version__ = '1.7.8'
 __released__ = '1.7.8'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
 
 # version info for better programmatic use
 # possible values for 3rd element: 'alpha', 'beta', 'rc', 'final'
 # 'final' has 0 as the last element
-version_info = (1, 7, 8, 'beta', 0)
+version_info = (1, 7, 8, 'final', 0)
 
 package_dir = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))