diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index da03033cb9..0e250ae534 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -20,6 +20,59 @@
 #   new recipes:
 #     - title: 
 
+- version: 1.9.0
+  date: 2013-11-01
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Drivers for the new Nook Glowlight, Lenovo IdeaPad and Kindle Fire HDX (linux)"
+      tickets: [1244857, 1246775]
+
+    - title: "Add an option to check for duplicates (books with the same title/author) when copying between libraries. Option is under Preferences->Adding books."
+      tickets: [1245089]
+
+    - title: "Content server: Display book title on details page. Also put the most important fields (authors/series/tags) at the top."
+      tickets: [1246523]
+
+    - title: "When developing recipes using the command line, allow specifying the number of feeds and articles when using the --test parameter."
+      tickets: [1246061]
+
+    - title: "PDF Output: Option to control title of generated Table of Contents"
+      tickets: [1245076]
+
+    - title: "PDF metadata: If one of the keywords in the PDF is a valid ISBN, use it as the ISBN for the book"
+ 
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Amazon metadata download: Fix spurious ratings being returned for unrated books."
+      tickets: [1245449]
+
+    - title: "Bulk metadata edit: Only clear series if the clear series checkbox is checked. Also add a clear checkbox for publishers, so that publishers can be removed."
+      tickets: [1245058]
+
+    - title: "Use <h2> for the inserted Table of Contents title for the MOBI and PDF formats as well as the EPUB and AZW3 formats."
+      tickets: [1245076]
+
+    - title: "Fix comments editor in review metadata becoming too small on small screens."
+      tickets: [1245275]
+
+    - title: "DOCX Input: Fix hyperlink showing as underlined even if the hyperlink style in word is set to not show underlines."
+
+    - title: "E-book viewer: Remember the size of the 'Inspect' window used to examine the book's code."
+      tickets: [1245068]
+
+    - title: "Wireless driver: Fix bug that prevented different formats of the same book on the device from being recognized"
+
+    - title: "Bulk metadata download: When downloading only covers and some covers fail, do not show the failed books while reviewing downloaded metadata."
+      tickets: [1238271]
+
+    - title: "BibTeX catalogs: Strip unmatched braces to prevent generation of invalid .bib file."
+      tickets: [1228905]
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Reuters (Japan)
+    - MIT Technology Review
+    - dotNet Magazine
+    - Science Based News
+
 - version: 1.8.0
   date: 2013-10-25
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 4056ab39b0..a113f4b48a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 __appname__   = u'calibre'
-numeric_version = (1, 8, 0)
+numeric_version = (1, 9, 0)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"