diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d2c701a..dfb7071 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 	<name>YamlBeans</name>
 	<groupId>com.esotericsoftware.yamlbeans</groupId>
 	<artifactId>yamlbeans</artifactId>
-	<version>1.08</version>
+	<version>1.09</version>
 
 	<description>Java object graphs, to and from YAML</description>
 	<url>https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/yamlbeans</url>
diff --git a/project.yaml b/project.yaml
index 96b523a..ee560ea 100644
--- a/project.yaml
+++ b/project.yaml
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 classpath: lib|*.jar|!junit*.jar
-version: 1.08
+version: 1.09