diff --git a/ghc-http-client.changes b/ghc-http-client.changes
index 211d572..5de603f 100644
--- a/ghc-http-client.changes
+++ b/ghc-http-client.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 10 09:27:55 UTC 2021 - psimons@suse.com
+
+- Update http-client to version 0.7.9.
+  ## 0.7.9
+
+  * Exceptions from streamed request body now cause the request to fail. Previously they were
+    routed through onRequestBodyException and, by default, the IOExceptions were discarded.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Apr 22 10:05:02 UTC 2021 - psimons@suse.com
 
diff --git a/ghc-http-client.spec b/ghc-http-client.spec
index ce7bae8..308fe58 100644
--- a/ghc-http-client.spec
+++ b/ghc-http-client.spec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 %global pkg_name http-client
 %bcond_with tests
 Name:           ghc-%{pkg_name}
-Version:        0.7.8
+Version:        0.7.9
 Release:        0
 Summary:        An HTTP client engine
 License:        MIT
diff --git a/http-client-0.7.8.tar.gz b/http-client-0.7.8.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 2769292..0000000
--- a/http-client-0.7.8.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:18fcaf0340871daa1859596e9338feda65888084e97f782b7c4c003a956b7e10
-size 92430
diff --git a/http-client-0.7.9.tar.gz b/http-client-0.7.9.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32e26e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/http-client-0.7.9.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
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+size 92752