diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index ad9bc7c..8f2f3bd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+=== 2.9 (2019-03-04)
+
+* Use of urllib instead of requests for smaller memory usage.
+
+
 === 2.8 (2019-01-05)
 
 * Fix quotes in enum generating invalid code
diff --git a/fastjsonschema/version.py b/fastjsonschema/version.py
index 72efc6b..4a45c12 100644
--- a/fastjsonschema/version.py
+++ b/fastjsonschema/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-VERSION = '2.8'
+VERSION = '2.9'