diff --git a/CHANGELOG.TXT b/CHANGELOG.TXT
index 8fb0afae..4437e2cf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.TXT
+++ b/CHANGELOG.TXT
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+6.7.8 (2024-12-13)
+	- Improve SVG detection by checking for (mandatory) namespace.
+	- Use late state binding now that minimum PHP version is 5.5.
+
 6.7.7 (2024-10-26)
 	- Update regular expression to avoid ReDoS (CVE-2024-22641)
 	- [PHP 8.4] Fix: Curl CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER deprecated #675
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 38f118fa..eed6de4b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.7.7
+6.7.8
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 666dac3f..2ca002a4 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         "barcodes"
     ],
     "homepage": "http://www.tcpdf.org/",
-    "version": "6.7.7",
+    "version": "6.7.8",
     "license": "LGPL-3.0-or-later",
     "authors": [
         {
diff --git a/include/tcpdf_static.php b/include/tcpdf_static.php
index ac9c3e1f..16828944 100644
--- a/include/tcpdf_static.php
+++ b/include/tcpdf_static.php
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class TCPDF_STATIC {
 	 * Current TCPDF version.
 	 * @private static
 	 */
-	private static $tcpdf_version = '6.7.7';
+	private static $tcpdf_version = '6.7.8';
 
 	/**
 	 * String alias for total number of pages.
diff --git a/tcpdf.php b/tcpdf.php
index fe203a7a..3404c52b 100644
--- a/tcpdf.php
+++ b/tcpdf.php
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <?php
 //============================================================+
 // File name   : tcpdf.php
-// Version     : 6.7.7
+// Version     : 6.7.8
 // Begin       : 2002-08-03
-// Last Update : 2024-10-26
+// Last Update : 2024-12-13
 // Author      : Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com LTD - www.tecnick.com - info@tecnick.com
 // License     : GNU-LGPL v3 (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html)
 // -------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
  * Tools to encode your unicode fonts are on fonts/utils directory.</p>
  * @package com.tecnick.tcpdf
  * @author Nicola Asuni
- * @version 6.6.5
+ * @version 6.7.8
  */
 
 // TCPDF configuration
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
  * TCPDF project (http://www.tcpdf.org) has been originally derived in 2002 from the Public Domain FPDF class by Olivier Plathey (http://www.fpdf.org), but now is almost entirely rewritten.<br>
  * @package com.tecnick.tcpdf
  * @brief PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions.
- * @version 6.7.7
+ * @version 6.7.8
  * @author Nicola Asuni - info@tecnick.com
  * @IgnoreAnnotation("protected")
  * @IgnoreAnnotation("public")