diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6cb05c8..2a676a9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## 7.0.0-beta1 - 2018-03-02
+- Update nanomorph@6.0.0-beta1.
+- Store a real dom-node reference to the proxy node for nanomorph to use.
+- This should fix leaky proxy nodes and improve failure modes.
+
 ## 6.5.1 - 2018-02-11
 - Update nanotiming@7.2.0
 - Update devdeps: tap-run, dependency-check, browserify, bankai
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "nanocomponent",
-  "version": "6.5.1",
+  "version": "7.0.0-beta1",
   "description": "Native DOM components that pair nicely with DOM diffing algorithms",
   "main": "index.js",
   "browser": {