diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d94daa71..d3a109d7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+1.9.0: Ludovic Rousseau
+14 June 2020
+- SCardEndTransaction(): greatly improve performances (x300)
+- tokenparser: accept any Unicode character in a reader name
+- Use /run instead of /var/run by default
+- Fix a memory leak from a polkit call
+- Some other minor improvements
+
+
 1.8.26: Ludovic Rousseau
 3 January 2020
 - Use poll() instead of select() to allow file descriptor higher than FD_SETSIZE
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 262fd76d..cef24c26 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
 
-AC_INIT([pcsc-lite],[1.8.26])
+AC_INIT([pcsc-lite],[1.9.0])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/pcscdaemon.c)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.8 dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])