diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index b957535bf97b3d..34268263b435b6 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -405,3 +405,6 @@ James Hight <james@zavoo.com>
 Mike Harsch <mike@harschsystems.com>
 Alexandr Emelin <frvzmb@gmail.com>
 James Campos <james.r.campos@gmail.com>
+Dave Olszewski <cxreg@pobox.com>
+Tim Price <timprice@mangoraft.com>
+Jake Verbaten <raynos2@gmail.com>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index dcaf95c5f9ae87..0b49f9c2c4959e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,27 @@
-2013.01.18, Version 0.9.7 (Unstable)
+2013.01.24, Version 0.9.8 (Unstable)
+
+* npm: Upgrade to v1.2.3
+
+* V8: Upgrade to 3.15.11.10
+
+* streams: Support objects other than Buffers (Jake Verbaten)
+
+* buffer: remove float write range checks (Trevor Norris)
+
+* http: close connection on 304/204 responses with chunked encoding (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* build: fix build with dtrace support on FreeBSD (Fedor Indutny)
+
+* console: Support formatting options in trace() (isaacs)
+
+* domain: empty stack on all exceptions (Dave Olszewski)
+
+* unix, windows: make uv_*_bind() error codes consistent (Andrius Bentkus)
+
+* linux: add futimes() fallback (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+
+2013.01.18, Version 0.9.7 (Unstable), 9e7bebeb8305edd55735a95955a98fdbe47572e5
 
 * V8: Upgrade to 3.15.11.7
 
diff --git a/src/node_version.h b/src/node_version.h
index 503d688afe4514..abeeed2abb83a7 100644
--- a/src/node_version.h
+++ b/src/node_version.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 # define NODE_TAG ""
 #endif
 
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)