From 88dd2b2483caec71bac6bf5075d61e06b8e3fb33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Miklosovic <smiklosovic@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:28:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Increment version to 5.0.9

---
 CHANGES.txt | 3 +++
 build.xml   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index ed6af40d08..4765ca5c30 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+5.0.9
+
+
 5.0.8
  * Backport Automated Repair Inside Cassandra for CEP-37 (CASSANDRA-21138)
  * Update cassandra-stress to support TLS 1.3 by default by auto-negotiation (CASSANDRA-21007)
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 8fadad77a5..2f8cb0c9f0 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="5.0.8"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="5.0.9"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git"/>