diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9afb0e2a..9d7ed23a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "async-std"
-version = "1.8.0"
+version = "1.9.0"
 authors = [
   "Stjepan Glavina <stjepang@gmail.com>",
   "Yoshua Wuyts <yoshuawuyts@gmail.com>",