diff --git a/documentation/releasenotes.rst b/documentation/releasenotes.rst
index cbe25e4..303f4b6 100644
--- a/documentation/releasenotes.rst
+++ b/documentation/releasenotes.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Release Notes
 
 .. currentmodule:: setuptools_dso
 
-2.9 (UNRELEASED)
-----------------
+2.9 (June 2023)
+---------------
 
 * Extend and fixup :py:meth:`ProbeToolchain.eval_macros`.  Adds ``language=`` argument, and fix when headers are included.
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 580bf9d..ef5389b 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='setuptools_dso',
-    version="2.9a1",
+    version="2.9",
     description="setuptools extension to build non-python shared libraries",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type='text/markdown',