diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 7d44aecd..42a4e260 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Description: In computationally demanding analysis projects,
   'clustermq' by Schubert (2019) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz284>),
   and 'batchtools' by Lang, Bischel, and Surmann (2017)
   <doi:10.21105/joss.00135>.
-Version: 0.9.5.9008
+Version: 0.9.5.9009
 License: MIT + file LICENSE
 URL: https://wlandau.github.io/crew/, https://github.com/wlandau/crew
 BugReports: https://github.com/wlandau/crew/issues
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 951f1849..41e8e269 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# crew 0.9.5.9008 (development)
+# crew 0.9.5.9009 (development)
 
 * Give full worker name in the worker launch error message (@multimeric).
 * Start the controller automatically in more methods.