diff --git a/contrib/debian/control.in b/contrib/debian/control.in
index 500d5cbfb..758cbf008 100644
--- a/contrib/debian/control.in
+++ b/contrib/debian/control.in
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Homepage: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/efi-team/fwupd.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/efi-team/fwupd
 
-Package: libfwupdplugin6
+Package: libfwupdplugin7
 Section: libs
 Architecture: linux-any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Description: GObject introspection data for libfwupd
 Package: libfwupdplugin-dev
 Architecture: linux-any
 Multi-Arch: same
-Depends: libfwupdplugin6 (= ${binary:Version}),
+Depends: libfwupdplugin7 (= ${binary:Version}),
          gir1.2-fwupdplugin-1.0 (= ${binary:Version}),
          libarchive-dev,
          libcbor-dev,
diff --git a/contrib/debian/libfwupdplugin6.install b/contrib/debian/libfwupdplugin7.install
similarity index 100%
rename from contrib/debian/libfwupdplugin6.install
rename to contrib/debian/libfwupdplugin7.install
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 920278307..a1679eb20 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ libfwupd_lt_current = '2'
 libfwupd_lt_revision = '0'
 libfwupd_lt_age = '0'
 libfwupd_lt_version = '@0@.@1@.@2@'.format(libfwupd_lt_current, libfwupd_lt_age, libfwupd_lt_revision)
-libfwupdplugin_lt_current = '6'
+libfwupdplugin_lt_current = '7'
 libfwupdplugin_lt_revision = '0'
 libfwupdplugin_lt_age = '0'
 libfwupdplugin_lt_version = '@0@.@1@.@2@'.format(libfwupdplugin_lt_current, libfwupdplugin_lt_age, libfwupdplugin_lt_revision)