diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 13c93c07..0c920ab3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
 
 # PGPainless Changelog
 
-## 1.7.7-SNAPSHOT
-- Bump `bcpg-jdk8on` to `1.81`
-- Bump `bcprov-jdk18on` to `1.81`
+## 1.7.7
+- Bump `bcpg-jdk8on` to `1.82`
+- Bump `bcprov-jdk18on` to `1.82`
+- Fix handling of passphrases and user-ids containing leading/trailing whitespace
 
 ## 1.7.6
 - Fix `RevocationSignatureBuilder` properly calculating third-party signatures of type `KeyRevocation` (delegation revocations)
diff --git a/pgpainless-sop/README.md b/pgpainless-sop/README.md
index 7f7267cd..ab0ff1b9 100644
--- a/pgpainless-sop/README.md
+++ b/pgpainless-sop/README.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ To start using pgpainless-sop in your code, include the following lines in your
 ...
 dependencies {
     ...
-    implementation "org.pgpainless:pgpainless-sop:1.7.6"
+    implementation "org.pgpainless:pgpainless-sop:1.7.7"
     ...
 }
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ dependencies {
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.pgpainless</groupId>
         <artifactId>pgpainless-sop</artifactId>
-        <version>1.7.6</version>
+        <version>1.7.7</version>
     </dependency>
     ...
 </dependencies>
diff --git a/version.gradle b/version.gradle
index 44de3f49..a67c9b75 100644
--- a/version.gradle
+++ b/version.gradle
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 allprojects {
     ext {
         shortVersion = '1.7.7'
-        isSnapshot = true
+        isSnapshot = false
         javaSourceCompatibility = 11
         bouncyCastleVersion = '1.82'
         bouncyPgVersion = bouncyCastleVersion