diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ddc3b078..4b44e501 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+2.9 "" (released x.x.xxxx)
+
 2.8 "Robots" (released 8.4.2005)
 
   * Correct AttributeError in blacklist logger.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 285a0e69..4582670f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+linkchecker (2.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release.
+
+ -- Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:03:52 +0200
+
 linkchecker (2.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 33c9f7c0..ccc10d3b 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ elif win_compiling:
              ]))
 
 setup (name = "linkchecker",
-       version = "2.8",
+       version = "2.9",
        description = "check websites and HTML documents for broken links",
        keywords = "link,url,checking,verification",
        author = myname,