diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 01a4998b9c5..cf6882686e4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+Changes to squid-4.9 (05 Nov 2019):
+
+	- Bug 4978: eCAP crash after using MyHost().newRequest()
+	- Bug 4970: excessive gnutls_certificate_credentials debug msgs
+	- Bug 4969: GCC-9 build failure: stringop-truncation
+	- Bug 4966: Lower cache_peer hostname
+	- Bug 4918: Crashes when using OpenSSL prior to v1.0.2
+	- TLS: Fix parsing of certificate validator responses
+	- TLS: Fix parsing of TLS messages that span multiple records
+	- TLS: Fix on_unsupported_protocol tunnel action
+	- TLS: Fix expiration of self-signed generated certs to be 3 years
+	- HTTP: Ignore malformed Host header in intercept and reverse proxy mode
+	- HTTP: RFC 7230: server MUST reject messages with BWS after field-name
+	- HTTP: Fix URN response handling
+	- HTTP: Hash Digest noncedata
+	- Update URI parser to use SBuf parsing APIs
+	- Prevent truncation for large origin-relative domains
+	- Fix several rock cache_dir corruption issues
+	- Debug detail validation errors for loaded-from-file certificate chains
+	- smblib: Improve SMB server name maintenance
+	- cachemgr.cgi: Add validation for hostname parameter
+	- ... and several compile issues
+	- ... and some documentation updates
+
 Changes to squid-4.8 (09 Jul 2019):
 
 	- Bug 4957: Multiple XSS issues in cachemgr.cgi
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7ad21e9e03e..2a6fa6acc81 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ## Please see the COPYING and CONTRIBUTORS files for details.
 ##
 
-AC_INIT([Squid Web Proxy],[4.8-VCS],[http://bugs.squid-cache.org/],[squid])
+AC_INIT([Squid Web Proxy],[4.9-VCS],[http://bugs.squid-cache.org/],[squid])
 AC_PREREQ(2.61)
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([include/autoconf.h])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(cfgaux)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-4.sgml b/doc/release-notes/release-4.sgml
index 8968b5cab1a..24f0b34dd17 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes/release-4.sgml
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-4.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!doctype linuxdoc system>
 <article>
-<title>Squid 4.8 release notes</title>
+<title>Squid 4.9 release notes</title>
 <author>Squid Developers</author>
 
 <abstract>
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ for Applied Network Research and members of the Web Caching community.
 <toc>
 
 <sect>Notice
-<p>The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-4.8 for testing.
+<p>The Squid Team are pleased to announce the release of Squid-4.9 for testing.
 
 This new release is available for download from <url url="http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v4/"> or the
  <url url="http://www.squid-cache.org/Download/http-mirrors.html" name="mirrors">.