diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index eb91f302..c89de97f 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Contributors (autogenerated list)
 Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>
 Alexander Neumann <alexander@bumpern.de>
 Benjamin Fleischer <fleiben@gmail.com>
+Berserker <berserker.troll@yandex.com>
+Bill Zissimopoulos <billziss@navimatics.com>
 Chris Wolfe <cwolfe@chromium.org>
 gala <gala132@users.noreply.github.com>
 George Vlahavas <vlahavas@gmail.com>
@@ -28,3 +30,4 @@ Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
 Percy Jahn <email@percyjahn.de>
 Qais Patankar <qaisjp@gmail.com>
 Rian Hunter <rian@alum.mit.edu>
+Zoltan Kuscsik <zoltan.kuscsik@linaro.org>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5f80c651..4644ae8d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Release 2.9 (2017-04-17)
+------------------------
+
+* Improved support for Cygwin.
+* Various small bugfixes.
+
 Release 2.8 (2016-06-22)
 ------------------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7c0cdd11..f33bb1bb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT(sshfs, 2.8)
+AC_INIT(sshfs, 2.9)
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)