diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bdc594bab..484d74391 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-## (TBD)
+## 1.9.0 (2016-11-15)
+- Note: the dynamodb change below may cause backwards compatibility issues.
+  There have been deprecation warnings for a while.
+- Replace dynamodb module with dynamodb2 (#564)
 - Add CodeCommit as a supported AWS resource type
 - Add update of github Releases page to RELEASE doc
 - Update elasticache for 2016-10-12 changes (#592)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c0b75e81f..7bd55fb93 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='troposphere',
-    version='1.8.2',
+    version='1.9.0',
     description="AWS CloudFormation creation library",
     author="Mark Peek",
     author_email="mark@peek.org",
diff --git a/troposphere/__init__.py b/troposphere/__init__.py
index 251188d68..171c03208 100644
--- a/troposphere/__init__.py
+++ b/troposphere/__init__.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 from . import validators
 
-__version__ = "1.8.2"
+__version__ = "1.9.0"
 
 # constants for DeletionPolicy
 Delete = 'Delete'