diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b3b1e4e..00ebe26 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ please refer to the [svg-sprite manual](https://github.com/jkphl/svg-sprite).
 
 ## Release history
 
+#### v1.0.9 Maintenance release
+* Compatible with [svg-sprite 1.0.9](https://github.com/jkphl/svg-sprite/tree/v1.0.9)
+* Updated dependencies
+* Introduced `svg` getter in templating shape variables
+* Fixed logging error in SVGO optimization
+* Fixed missing XML namespaces in SVG stack 
+* Fixed cache busting errors with example HTML document 
+
 #### v1.0.8 Bugfix release
 * Compatible with [svg-sprite 1.0.8](https://github.com/jkphl/svg-sprite/tree/v1.0.8)
 * Fixed broken rendering template path resolution ([#29](https://github.com/jkphl/grunt-svg-sprite/issues/29))
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index cb2a941..9e3857b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
 	"name": "gulp-svg-sprite",
 	"description": "SVG sprites & stacks galore — Gulp plugin wrapping around svg-sprite that reads in a bunch of SVG files, optimizes them and creates SVG sprites and CSS resources in various flavours",
-	"version": "1.0.8",
+	"version": "1.0.9",
 	"homepage": "https://github.com/jkphl/gulp-svg-sprite",
 	"author": {
 		"name": "Joschi Kuphal",
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 		"coveralls": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha --report lcovonly -- -R spec && cat ./coverage/lcov.info | ./node_modules/coveralls/bin/coveralls.js && rm -rf ./coverage"
 	},
 	"dependencies": {
-		"svg-sprite": "^1.0.8",
+		"svg-sprite": "^1.0.9",
 		"through2": "^0.6.3",
 		"gulp-util": "^3.0.1"
 	},