diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index acdfee69..68ddab78 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Relase date to be decided, codename to be chosen.
 Version 0.8.1
 -------------
 
-Bugfix release, release date to be decided
+Bugfix release, released on July 1th 2012
 
 - Fixed an issue with the undocumented `flask.session` module to not
   work properly on Python 2.5.  It should not be used but did cause
diff --git a/flask/__init__.py b/flask/__init__.py
index e48f7a97..b170ba5f 100644
--- a/flask/__init__.py
+++ b/flask/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 
-__version__ = '0.9-dev'
+__version__ = '0.9'
 
 # utilities we import from Werkzeug and Jinja2 that are unused
 # in the module but are exported as public interface.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fdc4653e..9b185fc0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class run_audit(Command):
 
 setup(
     name='Flask',
-    version='0.9-dev',
+    version='0.9',
     url='http://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/',
     license='BSD',
     author='Armin Ronacher',