diff --git a/auto_ml/_version.py b/auto_ml/_version.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/auto_ml/_version.py
+++ b/auto_ml/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "2.7.6"
+__version__ = "2.7.7"
<I> for minor updates- fixes sklearn-deap bug in test suite, deletes self.X_test to reduce file size, and handles more types of categorical input at prediction time that we haven't been exposed to at test time