diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c576728..19b77c4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,8 +7,16 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 <!-- markdownlint-disable MD024 -->
 
-## [Unreleased] (date goes here)
+## [7.0.0] (2020-12-20)
 
+### Changed
+
+- `auto` label now scans for `package.json` only if it can not find a version control file ([#644])
+
+### Added
+
+- `engine` label to look for `engines.node` in `package.json` (as used by`auto`) ([#644])
+- 
 ### Fixed
 
 - avoid colorized grep output via `GREP_OPTIONS` breaking version lookup ([#643])
@@ -318,10 +326,12 @@ Only minor functional changes, but technically could break scripts relying on sp
 [#624]: https://github.com/tj/n/issues/624
 [#635]: https://github.com/tj/n/pull/635
 [#643]: https://github.com/tj/n/pull/643
+[#644]: https://github.com/tj/n/pull/644
 
 <!-- reference links for releases -->
 
 [Unreleased]: https://github.com/tj/n/compare/master...develop
+[7.0.0]: https://github.com/tj/n/compare/v6.8.0...v7.0.0
 [6.8.0]: https://github.com/tj/n/compare/v6.7.1...v6.8.0
 [6.7.1]: https://github.com/tj/n/compare/v6.7.0...v6.7.1
 [6.7.0]: https://github.com/tj/n/compare/v6.6.0...v6.7.0
diff --git a/bin/n b/bin/n
index 0d7394f..09fae64 100755
--- a/bin/n
+++ b/bin/n
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ function n_grep() {
 # Setup and state
 #
 
-VERSION="6.8.1-0"
+VERSION="7.0.0"
 
 N_PREFIX="${N_PREFIX-/usr/local}"
 N_PREFIX=${N_PREFIX%/}