diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0f83e69269..80f4d8202e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
+## [unreleased] - YYYY-MM-DD
+
+### Added
+
+### Changed
+
+### Deprecated
+
+### Removed
+
+### Fixed
+
 ## [0.7.6] - 2020-05-16
 
 ### Added
@@ -29,6 +41,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Don't convert `namedtuple` to `tuple` when transferring the batch to target device ([#1589](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1589))
 - Allow passing hparams as keyword argument to LightningModule when loading from checkpoint ([#1639](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1639))
 - Args should come after the last positional argument ([#1807](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1807))
+- Made ddp the default if no backend specified with multiple GPUs ([#1789](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1789))
 
 ### Deprecated
 
@@ -42,7 +55,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Fixed sampler logic for ddp with iterable dataset ([#1734](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1734))
 - Fixed `_reset_eval_dataloader()` for IterableDataset ([#1560](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1560))
 - Fixed Horovod distributed backend to set the `root_gpu` property ([#1669](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1669))
-- Fixed wandb logger `global_step` affects other loggers ([#1492](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/issues/1485))
+- Fixed wandb logger `global_step` affects other loggers ([#1492](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1492))
 - Fixed disabling progress bar on non-zero ranks using Horovod backend ([#1709](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1709))
 - Fixed bugs that prevent lr finder to be used together with early stopping and validation dataloaders ([#1676](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1676))
 - Fixed a bug in Trainer that prepended the checkpoint path with `version_` when it shouldn't ([#1748](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1748))
@@ -51,6 +64,10 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Fixed accumulation parameter and suggestion method for learning rate finder ([#1801](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1801))
 - Fixed num processes wasn't being set properly and auto sampler was ddp failing ([#1819](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1819))
 - Fixed bugs in semantic segmentation example ([#1824](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1824))
+- Fixed saving native AMP scaler state ([#1561](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1561), [#1777](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1777))
+- Fixed native amp + ddp ([#1788](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1788))
+- Fixed `hparam` logging with metrics ([#1647](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/1647))
+
 
 ## [0.7.5] - 2020-04-27
 
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py b/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py
index 77e6a15652..7d26eefe8d 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """Root package info."""
 
-__version__ = '0.7.6'
+__version__ = '0.7.7-dev'
 __author__ = 'William Falcon et al.'
 __author_email__ = 'waf2107@columbia.edu'
 __license__ = 'Apache-2.0'