diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8289119..2f4dfcf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+New in 1.1.9:
+
+ * SAV reader: Improved support for Asian code pages #263
+ * SAV reader: Improved support for Very Long String records #287
+ * SAS reader: Improved support for RLE decompression #245 #253
+ * SAS reader: Support 16MiB page sizes #286
+ * SAS catalog reader: Fix bugs reading big-endian files #293
+ * SAS catalog reader: Allow formats with no labels #290
+ * SAS catalog reader: Check for long names in 64-bit files #291
+ * Improved compatibility with -Wstrict-prototypes #295
+ * Replace sprintf with snprintf #292
+
New in 1.1.8:
* XPT reader/writer: Improved support for format strings #257 #258
diff --git a/VS17/PropertySheet.props b/VS17/PropertySheet.props
index 16e2593..1cc1bc3 100644
--- a/VS17/PropertySheet.props
+++ b/VS17/PropertySheet.props
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
- READSTAT_VERSION="1.1.8";_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)
+ READSTAT_VERSION="1.1.9";_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS;%(PreprocessorDefinitions)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4acdd16..7855bd9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# Update this with each release. Be sure to change VS17/PropertySheet.props too
-AC_INIT([ReadStat],[1.1.8],[https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat/issues],[readstat],[https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat])
+AC_INIT([ReadStat],[1.1.9],[https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat/issues],[readstat],[https://github.com/WizardMac/ReadStat])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign subdir-objects])
AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])