From 7d124218359e0c14964f0905c893ffed7a116dba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 13:46:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Post-release version bump to 7.8.0

Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst    | 14 ++++++++++++++
 meson.build |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 97a36880e7..4521499db7 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,20 @@ the changes introduced by each of them.
 For a more fine-grained view, use the `git log`_.
 
 
+v7.8.0 (unreleased)
+===================
+
+* **Security**
+
+* **Removed features**
+
+* **New features**
+
+* **Improvements**
+
+* **Bug fixes**
+
+
 v7.7.0 (2021-09-01)
 ===================
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5af09d319a..9d493ccd9e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project(
   'libvirt', 'c',
-  version: '7.7.0',
+  version: '7.8.0',
   license: 'LGPLv2+',
   meson_version: '>= 0.54.0',
   default_options: [