diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 591674f..8d72176 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 /cogl-1.7.2.tar.bz2
 /cogl-1.7.4.tar.xz
 /cogl-1.7.6.tar.xz
+/cogl-1.7.8.tar.xz
diff --git a/cogl-deps.patch b/cogl-deps.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bdf510a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cogl-deps.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -up cogl-1.7.6/configure.ac.cogl-deps cogl-1.7.6/configure.ac
+--- cogl-1.7.6/configure.ac.cogl-deps	2011-08-18 19:24:36.401394406 -0400
++++ cogl-1.7.6/configure.ac	2011-08-18 19:24:54.271427526 -0400
+@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ AM_PATH_GLIB_2_0([glib_req_version],
+                  [gobject gthread gmodule-no-export])
+ AS_IF([test "x$have_glib" = "xno"], AC_MSG_ERROR([glib-2.0 is required]))
+ 
+-COGL_PKG_REQUIRES="$COGL_PKG_REQUIRES glib-2.0"
++COGL_PKG_REQUIRES="$COGL_PKG_REQUIRES glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gmodule-2.0"
+ AC_SUBST(COGL_PKG_REQUIRES)
+ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(COGL_DEP, [$COGL_PKG_REQUIRES])
+ if test -n "$COGL_PKG_REQUIRES_GL"; then
diff --git a/cogl.spec b/cogl.spec
index 335cfb9..f7b4a84 100644
--- a/cogl.spec
+++ b/cogl.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:          cogl
-Version:       1.7.6
+Version:       1.7.8
 Release:       1%{?dist}
 Summary:       A library for using 3D graphics hardware to draw pretty pictures
 
@@ -80,25 +80,25 @@ find %{buildroot} -name '*.la' -exec rm -f {} ';'
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %files -f %{name}.lang
-%defattr(-,root,root,-)
 %doc COPYING NEWS README ChangeLog
 %{_libdir}/libcogl*.so.*
 %{_libdir}/girepository-1.0/Cogl*.typelib
 
 %files devel
-%defattr(-, root, root)
 %{_includedir}/cogl
 %{_libdir}/libcogl*.so
 %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/*.pc
 %{_datadir}/gir-1.0/Cogl*.gir
 
 %files doc
-%defattr(-, root, root)
 %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/cogl
 %{_datadir}/gtk-doc/html/cogl-2.0-experimental
 
 %changelog
-* Mon Aug 15 2011 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.6-1
+* Mon Sep  5 2011 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@fedoraproject.org> - 1.7.8-1
+- Update to 1.7.8
+
+* Thu Aug 18 2011 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 1.7.6-1
 - Update to 1.7.6
 
 * Tue Jul 26 2011 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> - 1.7.4-1
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 116d891..836ea6c 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1e46c63c9b820471cdc12a7af87d8458  cogl-1.7.6.tar.xz
+85c4018c0f36bccfdcd3e270777f0232  cogl-1.7.8.tar.xz