diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 2f915f1..7da8245 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ every change, see the Git log.
 
 Latest
 ------
+* tbd
+
+9.0.1
+-----
 * Patch: Fixed a bug where insufficient permissions would cause the library to
   assert instead of throwing an exception when using the exception-based API.
 
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 775b324..4534121 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import sys
 import waflib
 
 APPNAME = "tunnel"
-VERSION = "9.0.0"
+VERSION = "9.0.1"
 
 
 def options(opt):