diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index adba5264..f63ef998 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+3.9.0
+=====
+
+Features
+--------
+* cqlengine: remove elements by key from a map (PYTHON-688)
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+* improve error handling when connecting to non-existent keyspace (PYTHON-665)
+* Sockets associated with sessions not getting cleaned up on session.shutdown() (PYTHON-673)
+* rare flake on integration.standard.test_cluster.ClusterTests.test_clone_shared_lbp (PYTHON-727)
+* MontonicTimestampGenerator.__init__ ignores class defaults (PYTHON-728)
+* race where callback or errback for request may not be called (PYTHON-733)
+* cqlengine: model.update() should not update columns with a default value that hasn't changed (PYTHON-657)
+* cqlengine: field value manager's explicit flag is True when queried back from cassandra (PYTHON-719)
+
+Other
+-----
+* Connection not closed in example_mapper (PYTHON-723)
+* Remove mention of pre-2.0 C* versions from OSS 3.0+ docs (PYTHON-710)
+
 3.8.1
 =====
 March 16, 2017
diff --git a/cassandra/__init__.py b/cassandra/__init__.py
index edb99c60..76db7bbf 100644
--- a/cassandra/__init__.py
+++ b/cassandra/__init__.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class NullHandler(logging.Handler):
 
 logging.getLogger('cassandra').addHandler(NullHandler())
 
-__version_info__ = (3, 8, 1, 'post0')
+__version_info__ = (3, 9, 0)
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, __version_info__))
 
 
diff --git a/docs.yaml b/docs.yaml
index 86cd85b4..e4c5c857 100644
--- a/docs.yaml
+++ b/docs.yaml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ sections:
     type: sphinx
     directory: docs
 versions:
+  - name: 3.9
+    ref: 3.9-doc
   - name: 3.8
     ref: 3.8-doc
   - name: 3.7