diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b79882773..9bf3a039b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ Copyright 2013, David Arthur under Apache License, v2.0. See `LICENSE`
 
 # Status
 
-I'm following the version numbers of Kafka, plus one number to indicate the
-version of this project. The current version is 0.8.0-1. This version is under
-development, APIs are subject to change.
+The current version of this package is **0.9.0** and is compatible with 
+Kafka brokers running version **0.8.1**.
 
 # Usage
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8fd18289f..0869fee3e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 class Tox(Command):
     user_options = []
+
     def initialize_options(self):
         pass
 
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(
     name="kafka-python",
-    version="0.8.1-1",
+    version="0.9.0",
 
     install_requires=["distribute"],
     tests_require=["tox"],