diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 5ed0848..5415c8e 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.8.1
+current_version = 1.9.0
 commit = True
 tag = True
 tag_name = v{new_version}
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 912f44e..b209fd5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 History
 -------
 
-1.9.0 (YYYY-MM-DD)
+1.9.0 (2024-03-14)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 * Now requires ``cssselect >= 1.2.0`` (this minimum version was required since
diff --git a/parsel/__init__.py b/parsel/__init__.py
index cd00fe6..a6253e1 100644
--- a/parsel/__init__.py
+++ b/parsel/__init__.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 __author__ = "Scrapy project"
 __email__ = "info@scrapy.org"
-__version__ = "1.8.1"
+__version__ = "1.9.0"
 __all__ = [
     "Selector",
     "SelectorList",
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 287583b..e5f682b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="parsel",
-    version="1.8.1",
+    version="1.9.0",
     description="Parsel is a library to extract data from HTML and XML using XPath and CSS selectors",
     long_description=readme + "\n\n" + history,
     long_description_content_type="text/x-rst",