diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ec71eba..d728263 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+0.9.1
+=====
+
+* PyOpenSSL is no longer required for Python 2.6: use the eventlet.green.ssl module. 2.5 and 2.4 still require PyOpenSSL.
+* Documentation on using SSL added.
+* Cleaned up the eventlet.green packages and their associated tests, this should result in fewer version-dependent bugs with these modules.
+* New green modules: ayncore, asynchat, SimpleHTTPServer, CGIHTTPServer, ftplib.
+* Fuller thread/threading compatibility: patching threadlocal with corolocal so coroutines behave even more like threads.
+* Improved Windows compatibility for tpool.py
+* With-statement compatibility for pools.Pool objects.
+* Refactored copyrights in the files, added LICENSE and AUTHORS files.
+* Added support for logging x-forwarded-for header in wsgi.
+* api.tcp_server is now deprecated, will be removed in a future release.
+* Added instructions on how to generate coverage reports to the documentation.
+* Bug fixes in: wsgi.py, twistedr.py, poll.py, greenio.py, util.py, select.py
+
 0.9.0
 =====
 
diff --git a/eventlet/__init__.py b/eventlet/__init__.py
index fb27b1c..9e6e269 100644
--- a/eventlet/__init__.py
+++ b/eventlet/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-version_info = (0, 9, 0)
+version_info = (0, 9, '1pre')
 __version__ = '%s.%s.%s' % version_info
diff --git a/eventlet/green/urllib.py b/eventlet/green/urllib.py
index fe5c02d..a5d7b32 100644
--- a/eventlet/green/urllib.py
+++ b/eventlet/green/urllib.py
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ except ImportError:
     
 patcher.inject('urllib', globals(), *to_patch)
 
+# patch a bunch of things that have imports inside the 
+# function body; this is lame and hacky but I don't feel 
+# too bad because urllib is a hacky pile of junk that no
+# one should be using anyhow
 URLopener.open_http = patcher.patch_function(URLopener.open_http, ('httplib', httplib))
 if hasattr(URLopener, 'open_https'):
     URLopener.open_https = patcher.patch_function(URLopener.open_https, ('httplib', httplib))