diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index e7ca613..37fcefa 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "0.7.0"
+  ".": "1.0.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index db9367f..258ff98 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.0.0](https://github.com/xeek-dev/squishmark/compare/v0.7.0...v1.0.0) (2026-07-04)
+
+
+### Miscellaneous
+
+* **release:** bump patch by default and cut 1.0.0 ([#158](https://github.com/xeek-dev/squishmark/issues/158)) ([d61cd12](https://github.com/xeek-dev/squishmark/commit/d61cd125b9d58284cbac18f53040783db0d47714))
+
 ## [0.7.0](https://github.com/xeek-dev/squishmark/compare/v0.6.1...v0.7.0) (2026-07-04)
 
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e873f27..a2512a3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "squishmark"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "1.0.0"
 description = "A lightweight, GitHub-powered blogging engine with Jinja2 theming"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { text = "MIT" }
diff --git a/src/squishmark/__init__.py b/src/squishmark/__init__.py
index 73d4c6e..a29d75a 100644
--- a/src/squishmark/__init__.py
+++ b/src/squishmark/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """SquishMark - A lightweight, GitHub-powered blogging engine with Jinja2 theming."""
 
-__version__ = "0.7.0"
+__version__ = "1.0.0"