From c7111310c6116ba508a6a170a89eaaed2129bd42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Bointon <marcus@synchromedia.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:40:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] 7.0.0

---
 README.md         | 2 +-
 VERSION           | 2 +-
 changelog.md      | 3 +++
 src/PHPMailer.php | 2 +-
 src/POP3.php      | 2 +-
 src/SMTP.php      | 2 +-
 6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 51c97517..65354872 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ This software is distributed under the [LGPL 2.1](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/o
 PHPMailer is available on [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/phpmailer/phpmailer) (using semantic versioning), and installation via [Composer](https://getcomposer.org) is the recommended way to install PHPMailer. Just add this line to your `composer.json` file:
 
 ```json
-"phpmailer/phpmailer": "^6.11.1"
+"phpmailer/phpmailer": "^7.0.0"
 ```
 
 or run
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index fac714a3..66ce77b7 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-6.11.1
+7.0.0
diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index a114cfcb..664cec72 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # PHPMailer Change Log
 
+## Version 7.0.0 (October 15th, 2025)
+This is exactly the same as 6.11.1 but bumps the major version number to indicate the presence of a BC break in child classes. Specifically, `lang()`, `setLanguage()`, and `$language` are now static, and should be called statically.
+
 ## Version 6.11.1 (September 30th, 2025)
 * Avoid function signature problems with the deprecation of `$useimap` in `parseAddresses`.
 
diff --git a/src/PHPMailer.php b/src/PHPMailer.php
index 0a8711f4..ff3b84bb 100644
--- a/src/PHPMailer.php
+++ b/src/PHPMailer.php
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ class PHPMailer
      *
      * @var string
      */
-    const VERSION = '6.11.1';
+    const VERSION = '7.0.0';
 
     /**
      * Error severity: message only, continue processing.
diff --git a/src/POP3.php b/src/POP3.php
index 2c2cf789..c881a1c3 100644
--- a/src/POP3.php
+++ b/src/POP3.php
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ class POP3
      *
      * @var string
      */
-    const VERSION = '6.11.1';
+    const VERSION = '7.0.0';
 
     /**
      * Default POP3 port number.
diff --git a/src/SMTP.php b/src/SMTP.php
index 3772c94a..a36741bf 100644
--- a/src/SMTP.php
+++ b/src/SMTP.php
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class SMTP
      *
      * @var string
      */
-    const VERSION = '6.11.1';
+    const VERSION = '7.0.0';
 
     /**
      * SMTP line break constant.