diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 53f0c1a29c1bee..ac6992329f0780 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,49 @@
-2012.08.22, Version 0.8.8 (Stable)
+2012.09.11, Version 0.8.9 (Stable)
+
+* v8: upgrade to 3.11.10.22
+
+* GYP: upgrade to r1477
+
+* npm: Upgrade to 1.1.61
+
+* npm: Don't create world-writable files (isaacs)
+
+* windows: fix single-accept mode for shared server sockets (Bert Belder)
+
+* windows: fix uninitialized memory access in uv_update_time() (Bert Belder)
+
+* windows: don't throw when a signal handler is attached (Bert Belder)
+
+* unix: fix memory leak in udp (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: map errno ESPIPE (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix, windows: fix memory corruption in fs-poll.c (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* sunos: fix os.cpus() on x86_64 (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* child process: fix processes with IPC channel don't emit 'close' (Bert Belder)
+
+* build: add a "--dest-os" option to force a gyp "flavor" (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* build: set `process.platform` to "sunos" on SunOS (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* build: fix `make -j` fails after `make clean` (Bearice Ren)
+
+* build: fix openssl configuration for "arm" builds (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* tls: support unix domain socket/named pipe in tls.connect (Shigeki Ohtsu)
+
+* https: make https.get() accept a URL (koichik)
+
+* http: respect HTTP/1.0 TE header (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* crypto, tls: Domainify setSNICallback, pbkdf2, randomBytes (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* stream.pipe: Don't call destroy() unless it's a function (isaacs)
+
+
+2012.08.22, Version 0.8.8 (Stable), a299c97bbc701f4d460e91214d7bfe7a9589d361
 
 * V8: upgrade to 3.11.10.19
 
diff --git a/src/node_version.h b/src/node_version.h
index ed000ad3af7851..44f63c24680092 100644
--- a/src/node_version.h
+++ b/src/node_version.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 0
 #define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 8
 #define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 9
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)