diff --git a/prep-release.sh b/prep-release.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..79c38330f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prep-release.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+set -ex
+
+VERSION=$1
+
+if [ -z "$VERSION" ]
+then
+  echo "USAGE: ./prep-release.sh <version>"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+cargo set-version -p sqlx-rt "$VERSION"
+cargo set-version -p sqlx-core "$VERSION"
+cargo set-version -p sqlx-macros "$VERSION"
+cargo set-version -p sqlx "$VERSION"
+cargo set-version -p sqlx-cli "$VERSION"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml b/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
index 9cf28d3258..0abbb05db5 100644
--- a/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/sqlx-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ offline = ["serde", "either/serde"]
 [dependencies]
 ahash = "0.7.2"
 atoi = "0.4.0"
-sqlx-rt = { path = "../sqlx-rt", version = "0.5.6" }
+sqlx-rt = { path = "../sqlx-rt", version = "0.5.9"}
 base64 = { version = "0.13.0", default-features = false, optional = true, features = ["std"] }
 bigdecimal_ = { version = "0.2.0", optional = true, package = "bigdecimal" }
 rust_decimal = { version = "1.8.1", optional = true }