diff --git a/bigchaindb/version.py b/bigchaindb/version.py
index 060e76d3..a0ea3097 100644
--- a/bigchaindb/version.py
+++ b/bigchaindb/version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-__version__ = '0.9.0.dev'
-__short_version__ = '0.9.dev'
+__version__ = '0.9.0'
+__short_version__ = '0.9'