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 PhantomJS ([www.phantomjs.org](http://phantomjs.org)) is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript or CoffeeScript. It is used by hundreds of [developers](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Buzz) and dozens of [organizations](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/wiki/Users) for web-related development workflow.
 
-The latest [stable release](http://phantomjs.org/release-1.8.html) is version 1.8 (codenamed <a href="http://phantomjs.org/release-names.html">"Blue Winter Rose"</a>). Follow the official Twitter stream [@PhantomJS](http://twitter.com/PhantomJS) to get the frequent development updates.
+The latest [stable release](http://phantomjs.org/release-1.9.html) is version 1.9 (codenamed <a href="http://phantomjs.org/release-names.html">"Sakura"</a>). Follow the official Twitter stream [@PhantomJS](http://twitter.com/PhantomJS) to get the frequent development updates.
 
 **Note**: Please **do not** create a GitHub pull request **without** reading the [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) first. Failure to do so may result in the rejection of the pull request.