diff --git a/x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.asciidoc b/x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
index f39b0b81a952..545344ceb4a1 100644
--- a/x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
+++ b/x-pack/elastic-agent/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 - Fix panic and flaky tests for the Agent. {pull}18135[18135]
 - Fix default configuration after enroll {pull}18232[18232]
 - Fix make sure the collected logs or metrics include streams information. {pull}18261[18261]
+- Fix version to 7.8 {pull}18286[18286]
 
 ==== New features
 
diff --git a/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/release/version.go b/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/release/version.go
index fdb19bdf4f9f..3561ddc5047e 100644
--- a/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/release/version.go
+++ b/x-pack/elastic-agent/pkg/release/version.go
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // version is the current version of the elastic-agent.
-var version = "8.0.0"
+var version = "7.8.0"
 
 // buildHash is the hash of the current build.
 var commit = "<unknown>"