diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b83dd6d4..fb9d597d8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+## 1.27.9
+
+### Fixes
+- Prevent nil-dereference in format.Object for boxed nil error (#681) [3b31fc3]
+
+### Maintenance
+- Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 (#679) [360849b]
+- chore: use String() instead of fmt.Sprintf (#678) [86f3659]
+- Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.10.0 to 0.11.0 (#674) [642ead0]
+- chore: unnecessary use of fmt.Sprintf (#677) [ceb9ca6]
+- Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.10.0 to 2.11.0 (#675) [a2087d8]
+- docs: fix ContainSubstring references (#673) [fc9a89f]
+- Bump github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2 from 2.9.7 to 2.10.0 (#671) [9076019]
+
 ## 1.27.8
 
 ### Fixes
diff --git a/gomega_dsl.go b/gomega_dsl.go
index bc7ec293d..4d4cbaa76 100644
--- a/gomega_dsl.go
+++ b/gomega_dsl.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/onsi/gomega/types"
 )
 
-const GOMEGA_VERSION = "1.27.8"
+const GOMEGA_VERSION = "1.27.9"
 
 const nilGomegaPanic = `You are trying to make an assertion, but haven't registered Gomega's fail handler.
 If you're using Ginkgo then you probably forgot to put your assertion in an It().