diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cb73e83..63868d6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Unreleased / tbd
+## v0.9.0-rc0 / 2018-12-20
 
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Update the Prometheus client library to 0.9.2 ([#171](https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter/pull/171))
 * [FEATURE] Metrics can now be expired with a per-mapping TTL ([#164](https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter/pull/164))
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 6f4eebd..911061a 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.8.1
+0.9.0-rc0