diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 03fd3c2f..18ae25a0 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 project('gst-plugins-rs',
         'rust',
         'c',
-        version: '0.9.5',
+        version: '0.9.8',
         meson_version : '>= 0.60')
 
 # dependencies.py needs a toml parsing module