diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 319edc6f..9dc51b02 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Eff is published for Scala 2.12, 2.13 and 3. `eff` core is available for the JVM
 
 ```scala
 // check maven badge above for latest version
-libraryDependencies += "org.atnos" %% "eff" % "7.0.1"
+libraryDependencies += "org.atnos" %% "eff" % "7.0.4"
 
 // to write types like Reader[String, *]
 libraryDependencies ++= {
diff --git a/notes/v7.0.4.markdown b/notes/v7.0.4.markdown
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..93fa73f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/notes/v7.0.4.markdown
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+- [Update nscplugin, sbt-scala-native to 0.5.2 (#758)](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/e49fe043e614d6264c1f8cdc02495ff5d9edff8a)
+- [Update cats-core to 2.11.0](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/a1fe05b007571da16524915cc807fca04b1d1f80)
+- [update pandoc](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/0d22c2063bb848dca169b0398ce498cace46c0d0)
+- [Update sbt to 1.10.0](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/1e7a0ae6ddea97e53d366909c9cc2ee345b9d6bd)
+- [Update util-core to 24.2.0](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/9025f753c565d05a3b13aa5657bf0ae66c7fa3cb)
+- [Update scala-library to 2.13.14](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/b4979eb70ec7215711eb0be3aaf64e7433cff22c)
+- [Update scala-collection-compat to 2.12.0](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/0324ae8dab7d299417a55ec03025e983df696976)
+- [Update scalafmt-core to 3.8.1](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/7ebb7391036900ef62c14cf6394fe209d204ac1a)
+- [Update sbt-buildinfo to 0.12.0](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/46f8b84200f0bff5444fc46de4214584e8b83232)
+- [Update sbt-scalajs, scalajs-compiler, ... to 1.16.0](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/d76adf1965067e9c134b780133a4ad67446d18f5)
+- [Update cats-effect to 3.5.4](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/d8f0a2a15f14fe4d6b83da41bcfaf138a8cbbf6b)
+- [Update scala3-library, ... to 3.3.3](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/edaad9cc4ce943d5ea8d7069e0a4537e872711fd)
+- [Update scala-library, scala-reflect to 2.13.13](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/69937ba4310f7d7d379890c66ef2f25b7429b22f)
+- [prepare Scala 2.13.13](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/eb603de8fe79b10425d81d77c3ee3d282865b1b1)
+- [Update scala-library, scala-reflect to 2.12.19](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/2c417b2d3019b81923b122653db416c2c414a5f5)
+- [Update kind-projector to 0.13.3](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/d0156e48817b081216d56060737da2d32a40ea7d)
+- [Update scalafmt setting](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/54df614d188b6abcf71f0e99b1cc86f534866918)
+- [update scalafmt settings. prepare Scala 3.4](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/d175cb55cef22c8e93ed90b3b3d56f61b7485887)
+- [Update scalaz-core to 7.3.8](https://github.com/atnos-org/eff/commit/5ac4ce2d497f0811bce01fbd35b768b35548e39c)
diff --git a/version.sbt b/version.sbt
index fa3d6a6c..376d93ad 100644
--- a/version.sbt
+++ b/version.sbt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-ThisBuild / version := "7.0.2-SNAPSHOT"
+ThisBuild / version := "7.0.4"