diff --git a/.versionbot/CHANGELOG.yml b/.versionbot/CHANGELOG.yml
index 03a5ef51..a92a6888 100644
--- a/.versionbot/CHANGELOG.yml
+++ b/.versionbot/CHANGELOG.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+- commits:
+    - subject: Make sure to correctly convert config emit events after validation
+      hash: 3d6dc88eb0c77d4bdeec93645d01d730c54e87d7
+      body: |
+        We were validating the input configuration values by coercing them to
+        the correct type, and then using the initial value to be saved (which
+        currently is always converted to a string).
+
+        We now use the coerced value as the actual value we will store, and more
+        importantly emit. This means that the config.on('change' ...) calls will
+        always be properly typed, which before this change was not a guarantee
+        that we could make.
+      footer:
+        Change-type: patch
+        change-type: patch
+        Signed-off-by: Cameron Diver <cameron@balena.io>
+        signed-off-by: Cameron Diver <cameron@balena.io>
+      author: Cameron Diver
+  version: 9.7.4
+  date: 2019-02-11T11:24:08.324Z
 - commits:
     - subject: Set default delta apply timeout of 0
       hash: 88f19b414737b2f3ab2bf9587464450e46460ff3
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ac311b87..ecfeea33 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file
 automatically by Versionist. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY!
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## 9.7.4 - 2019-02-11
+
+* Make sure to correctly convert config emit events after validation [Cameron Diver]
+
 ## 9.7.3 - 2019-02-11
 
 * Set default delta apply timeout of 0 [Cameron Diver]
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 71976845..611c9b16 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "balena-supervisor",
   "description": "This is balena's Supervisor, a program that runs on IoT devices and has the task of running user Apps (which are Docker containers), and updating them as the balena API informs it to.",
-  "version": "9.7.3",
+  "version": "9.7.4",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",