diff --git a/rclpy/CHANGELOG.rst b/rclpy/CHANGELOG.rst
index 1197b8aa3..e22790020 100644
--- a/rclpy/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/rclpy/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Changelog for package rclpy
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Forthcoming
------------
+7.7.0 (2024-11-20)
+------------------
 * Fix the race condition while calling rcl_shutdown (`#1353 <https://github.com/ros2/rclpy/issues/1353>`_)
 * Use @deprecated to mark deprecated APIs for type checkers. (`#1350 <https://github.com/ros2/rclpy/issues/1350>`_)
 * init (`#1358 <https://github.com/ros2/rclpy/issues/1358>`_)
diff --git a/rclpy/package.xml b/rclpy/package.xml
index 1263309d9..576bfe0da 100644
--- a/rclpy/package.xml
+++ b/rclpy/package.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <?xml-model href="http://download.ros.org/schema/package_format2.xsd" schematypens="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"?>
 <package format="2">
   <name>rclpy</name>
-  <version>7.6.0</version>
+  <version>7.7.0</version>
   <description>Package containing the Python client.</description>
 
   <maintainer email="sloretz@openrobotics.org">Shane Loretz</maintainer>