diff --git a/Changes.md b/Changes.md
index 0912d1057c..bdf320b7ef 100644
--- a/Changes.md
+++ b/Changes.md
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-8.0.0 alpha x (relative to 8.0.0 alpha 8)
+8.0.0 alpha x (relative to 8.0.0 alpha 9)
+-------------
+
+
+
+8.0.0 alpha 9 (relative to 8.0.0 alpha 8)
 -------------
 
 - OpenEXR : Applied patches from the following pull requests :
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index 10243759e7..c6bad273c0 100755
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 import tarfile
 import zipfile
 
-__version = "8.0.0a8"
+__version = "8.0.0a9"
 
 """
 Config file format