diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 46011a60..14288624 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# 7.9.0 - 2026-02-17
+
+feat: Support device_id as bucketing identifier for local evaluation
+
 # 7.8.6 - 2026-02-09
 
 fix: limit collections scanning in code variables
diff --git a/posthog/version.py b/posthog/version.py
index 08a3bb39..19dced08 100644
--- a/posthog/version.py
+++ b/posthog/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-VERSION = "7.8.6"
+VERSION = "7.9.0"
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(VERSION, end="")  # noqa: T201