diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2767d4e8..2c3d3d4f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,74 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.7.8 (2026-07-22)
+
+### Features
+
+- **Unified Mailbox**: Account-bounded Unified Mailbox with opt-in cross-account aggregation (#509)
+- **Unified Mailbox**: Search in the unified views
+- **Unified Mailbox**: Live unified/All-Mail counters for shared and group accounts
+- **Mail**: Message-list category tabs
+- **Mail**: Drag-and-drop reorder for all folders
+- **Mail**: Collapse quoted reply text behind a "..." toggle (#480)
+- **Mail**: Bulk Not-Spam action in the junk selection toolbar
+- **Mail**: Unread count badge on the favicon
+- **Mail**: Message spacing setting (auto/always/edge-to-edge)
+- **Mail**: Open external links in a new tab (safely)
+- **Mail**: Strip external `url()`/`@import` from `<style>` blocks in the sanitizer (#457)
+- **Composer**: Text color picker in the composer toolbar
+- **Composer**: Contact groups as single expandable recipient chips
+- **Composer**: Drag-to-reorder To/Cc/Bcc recipient chips (#593)
+- **Composer**: Auto-detect paragraph text direction by default
+- **Templates**: HTML template support
+- **Vacation**: HTML body support in the vacation responder
+- **Send**: 'Send now' action on the send-delay toast
+- **Accounts**: Remove a specific account from the switcher
+- **Settings**: "Refresh cached data" recovery action
+- **i18n**: Full Arabic (ar) translation with RTL support
+- **Login**: `LOGIN_SHOW_TOTP` and `LOGIN_SHOW_VERSION` config flags (#520)
+- **Docker**: `NEXT_PUBLIC_LOCALE_PREFIX` build argument
+- **Plugins**: `ui.rerenderFetchedEmails` method (#668)
+- **Plugins**: `onEmailsFetched` and `onSearchResults` hooks and `getSomeEmails` JMAP method
+- **Plugins**: `onRecipientChipsChange` hook
+- **Plugins**: `webauthn.getOrCreate` API method
+- **Plugins**: Download files generated by a plugin (with `ui:download-file` consent permission)
+- **Plugins**: Submit mail without moving to a mailbox and import-to-mailbox APIs
+
+### Fixes
+
+- **Mail**: Render the email body on DOM parse instead of iframe load (#635)
+- **Mail**: Keep sidebar tag counts in step with read/unread changes
+- **Mail**: Enable thread expansion in the focused list
+- **Mail**: Show the quote bar in email replies
+- **Mail**: Honor part-type fallback when quoting replies (#649)
+- **Mail**: Detect typing inside the quoted-HTML shadow island (#654)
+- **Mail**: Keep `target`/`rel` on links in plain-text message bodies and open signature links in a new tab
+- **Accounts**: Eliminate the full-screen flash when switching accounts (including cached accounts)
+- **Accounts**: Recognize canonicalized login usernames in the account-switch guard
+- **Auth**: Guard account switch against slot→token desync and basic-auth identity mismatches
+- **Auth**: End refresh loops on sign-out and back off failed retries
+- **OAuth**: Harden OIDC discovery (timeout, retry, serve-stale)
+- **JMAP**: Preserve POST across redirects in the Stalwart JMAP passthrough (#627)
+- **JMAP**: File the post-send message with a full `mailboxIds` replacement
+- **JMAP**: Generate the Message-ID client-side using the sender's domain
+- **Identity**: Sync the default sender identity per account (#507)
+- **Attachments**: Download/view attachments on cross-account All-Mail messages
+- **Shared folders**: Route batch actions to the owner account
+- **Templates**: Insert a mail template at the caret in replies instead of prepending (#539)
+- **Templates**: Keep the signature when inserting a template (#621)
+- **Templates**: Hide template buttons when templates are disabled
+- **Calendar**: Honor "Show time in month view" on mobile instead of forcing dots (#666)
+- **Calendar**: Classify self-organized imported events as editable
+- **Contacts**: Assign a UID to contact cards on creation (#644)
+- **Spam**: Stop HELO `spf=none` from downgrading a MAIL FROM `spf=pass` (#650)
+- **Drafts**: Label the close-dialog draft button with the generic Save
+- **RTL**: Flip JS-positioned popovers and anchor floating menus with logical start/end
+- **RTL**: Isolate Latin address text from RTL bidi reordering and force LTR identity options
+- **i18n**: Register Arabic messages in the client IntlProvider
+- **i18n**: Fix the Hebrew Drafts folder label
+- **i18n**: Add missing translation keys across 22 locales
+- **Deps**: Bump `dompurify` to 3.4.12 and `next-intl` to 4.13.3
+
 ## 1.7.7 (2026-07-09)
 
 ### Features
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8b2ce340..de76d879 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ A modern, self-hosted webmail client for [Stalwart Mail Server](https://stalw.ar
 
 [![License: AGPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-AGPL%20v3-blue.svg?logo=gnu&logoColor=white)](LICENSE)
 [![Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/1482128142939455674?color=7289da&label=discord&logo=discord&logoColor=white)](https://discord.gg/tYCujymGrT)
-[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-1.7.7-green.svg?logo=git&logoColor=white)](CHANGELOG.md)
+[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-1.7.8-green.svg?logo=git&logoColor=white)](CHANGELOG.md)
 [![Docker](https://img.shields.io/badge/docker-ghcr.io%2Fbulwarkmail%2Fwebmail-blue?logo=docker&logoColor=white)](https://ghcr.io/bulwarkmail/webmail)
 </div>
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 91c74a58..84298f96 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.7.7
+1.7.8
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 5705450c..c7a94d8c 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "bulwark-webmail",
-  "version": "1.7.7",
+  "version": "1.7.8",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "bulwark-webmail",
-      "version": "1.7.7",
+      "version": "1.7.8",
       "license": "AGPL-3.0-only",
       "dependencies": {
         "@dnd-kit/core": "^6.3.1",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 560a02e4..5df72c3d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "bulwark-webmail",
-  "version": "1.7.7",
+  "version": "1.7.8",
   "description": "Bulwark Webmail - a modern webmail client built for Stalwart Mail Server",
   "author": "Bulwark Webmail <bulwark@rbm.systems>",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-only",