diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index da8e44bb..165e9d07 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Alessandro Pilotti (ap@pilotti.it)
 Alex Gaynor (alex.gaynor@gmail.com)
+Alex Schultz (aschultz@redhat.com)
 Alexandra Settle (alexandra.settle@rackspace.com)
 Alexis Lee (lxsli@hpe.com)
 Alistair Coles (alistairncoles@gmail.com)
@@ -70,6 +71,7 @@ Josh Gachnang (josh@pcsforeducation.com)
 Juan J. Martinez (juan@memset.com)
 Jude Job (judeopenstack@gmail.com)
 Julien Danjou (julien@danjou.info)
+kangyufei (kangyf@inspur.com)
 Kazufumi Noto (noto.kazufumi@gmail.com)
 Kota Tsuyuzaki (tsuyuzaki.kota@lab.ntt.co.jp)
 Kun Huang (gareth@unitedstack.com)
@@ -117,6 +119,7 @@ SaiKiran (saikiranveeravarapu@gmail.com)
 Sam Morrison (sorrison@gmail.com)
 Samuel Merritt (sam@swiftstack.com)
 Sean Dague (sean@dague.net)
+Sébastien Blaisot (sebastien@blaisot.org)
 Sergey Gotliv (sgotliv@redhat.com)
 Sergio Cazzolato (sergio.j.cazzolato@intel.com)
 Shane Wang (shane.wang@intel.com)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 501491bf..cecee2da 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+3.9.0
+-----
+
+* Now tested under Python 3.8.
+
+* Better clean up connections when using the low-level client.py API.
+
+* Fixed a display issue when `swift delete` made multiple attempts to bulk
+  delete objects.
+
+
 3.8.1
 -----
 
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/3_9_0_release-3c293d277f14ec22.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/3_9_0_release-3c293d277f14ec22.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6286b616
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/3_9_0_release-3c293d277f14ec22.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    Now tested under Python 3.8.
+
+fixes:
+  - |
+    Better clean up connections when using the low-level ``client.py`` API.
+
+  - |
+    Fixed a display issue when ``swift delete`` made multiple attempts to
+    bulk delete objects.