diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 34f55ce..e3c5c98 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Changes with tdc 1.9                                                31 Oct 2019
+
+  * Special Halloween release
+  * Fix FTCBFS found by downstream
+    + Thanks Helmut Grohne
+
 Changes with tdc 1.8                                                22 Oct 2019
 
   * Fix compiler warnings
diff --git a/docs/tdc.1 b/docs/tdc.1
index 318dd6e..3791353 100644
--- a/docs/tdc.1
+++ b/docs/tdc.1
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 .\"    Author: Michael Lustfield <michael@lustfield.net>
 .\"      Date: 10/06/2014
 .\"    Manual: User Commands
-.\"    Source: tdc 1.8
+.\"    Source: tdc 1.9
 .\"
-.TH "TDC" "1" "10/06/2014" "tdc 1\.8" "User Commands"
+.TH "TDC" "1" "10/06/2014" "tdc 1\.9" "User Commands"
 .\" disable hyphenation
 .nh
 .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
diff --git a/tdc.c b/tdc.c
index f6c3f97..265e5dc 100644
--- a/tdc.c
+++ b/tdc.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ void get_params(Display *display, int argc, char *argv[]) {
 
   /* check for version request */
   if (XrmGetResource(database, "tdc.version", "tdc.version", &type, &xrmval) == True) {
-    printf("tdc 1.8\n");
+    printf("tdc 1.9\n");
     exit(0);
   }