diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 62f027c0bae..6db11f0fcfb 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+5.7.9 / 2019-11-08
+==================
+ * fix(schema): support setting schema path to an instance of SchemaTypeOptions to fix integration with mongoose-i18n-localize #8297 #8292
+ * fix(populate): make `retainNullValues` set array element to `null` if foreign doc with that id was not found #8293
+ * fix(document): support getter setting virtual on manually populated doc when calling toJSON() #8295
+ * fix(model): allow objects with `toBSON()` to make it to `save()` #8299
+
 5.7.8 / 2019-11-04
 ==================
  * fix(document): allow manually populating path within document array #8273
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 5d12faf4f01..0e59ddfd134 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "mongoose",
   "description": "Mongoose MongoDB ODM",
-  "version": "5.7.9-pre",
+  "version": "5.7.9",
   "author": "Guillermo Rauch <guillermo@learnboost.com>",
   "keywords": [
     "mongodb",