diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 48c4de0e4..ea1386961 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "maturin"
-version = "1.7.6-beta.1"
+version = "1.7.6"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "base64 0.21.7",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 5b5c29ebe..6f2925e9a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 authors = ["konstin <konstin@mailbox.org>", "messense <messense@icloud.com>"]
 name = "maturin"
-version = "1.7.6-beta.1"
+version = "1.7.6"
 description = "Build and publish crates with pyo3, cffi and uniffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages"
 exclude = [
     "test-crates/**/*",
diff --git a/src/metadata.rs b/src/metadata.rs
index 8d02d0716..8c091747a 100644
--- a/src/metadata.rs
+++ b/src/metadata.rs
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ impl Metadata23 {
     /// Initializes with name, version and otherwise the defaults
     pub fn new(name: String, version: Version) -> Self {
         Self {
-            metadata_version: "2.3".to_string(),
+            metadata_version: "2.4".to_string(),
             name,
             version,
             platform: vec![],
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ mod test {
         );
 
         let expected = expect![[r#"
-            Metadata-Version: 2.3
+            Metadata-Version: 2.4
             Name: info-project
             Version: 0.1.0
             Summary: A test project