diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index e81f2bb970..b2e36167ac 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
    erroring out (CASSANDRA-3975)
  * add CompositeType ref to the CLI doc for create/update column family (CASSANDRA-3980)
  * Pig: support Counter ColumnFamilies (CASSANDRA-3973)
- * Pig: Composite column support (CASSANDRA-384)
+ * Pig: Composite column support (CASSANDRA-3684)
  * Avoid NPE during repair when a keyspace has no CFs (CASSANDRA-3988)
  * Fix division-by-zero error on get_slice (CASSANDRA-4000)
  * don't change manifest level for cleanup, scrub, and upgradesstables
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@
  * fix totalBytes count for parallel compactions (CASSANDRA-3758)
  * fix intermittent NPE in get_slice (CASSANDRA-4095)
  * remove unnecessary asserts in native code interfaces (CASSANDRA-4096)
+ * Validate blank keys in CQL to avoid assertion errors (CASSANDRA-3612)
+ * cqlsh: fix bad decoding of some column names (CASSANDRA-4003)
+ * cqlsh: fix incorrect padding with unicode chars (CASSANDRA-4033)
+ * Fix ConcurrentModificationException in gossiper (CASSANDRA-4019)
+ * Fix EC2 snitch incorrectly reporting region (CASSANDRA-4026)
+ * Shut down thrift during decommission (CASSANDRA-4086)
+ * Expose nodetool cfhistograms for 2ndary indexes (CASSANDRA-4063)
 
 
 1.0.8
diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index d64c714557..4d09ccf14d 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ upgrade, just in case you need to roll back to the previous version.
 (Cassandra version X + 1 will always be able to read data files created
 by version X, but the inverse is not necessarily the case.)
 
+
+1.0.9
+=====
+
+Upgrading
+---------
+    - Nothing specific to 1.0.9
+
+
 1.0.8
 =====
 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index c2e8768b4d..f13f1ad0cd 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information (we need the default SCM info as people may checkout with git-svn) -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="1.0.8"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="1.0.9"/>
     <property name="scm.default.path" value="cassandra/branches/cassandra-1.0.0"/>
     <property name="scm.default.connection" value="scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/${scm.default.path}"/>
     <property name="scm.default.developerConnection" value="scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/${scm.default.path}"/>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4e96e0cf76..a69e92d62a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cassandra (1.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New release
+
+ -- Sylvain Lebresne <slebresne@apache.org>  Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:52:05 +0200
+
 cassandra (1.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New release