diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0605f0e8db90bb96cb0f493aeab69166acefe5a9..3845ca8e9e9b0d5a76366808974ddf557f53d17c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,9 +10,17 @@ KleidiAI follows the [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/) specification fo
 
 ## Upcoming Release
 
+## v1.9.0
+
+- Extend support for signed 4-bit integer inputs in `kai_rhs_pack_nxk_qsi4cxps1s0_qsu4cxs1s0_neon`.
+- Add imatmul documentation
+- Better out-of-bounds access detection support in testing framework.
 - New SME2 micro-kernels:
   - Matrix multiplication (1xN) of QAI8DX LHS and QSI8CX RHS to produce F32 output.
   - Matrix multiplication (MxN) of QAI8DX LHS and QSI8CX RHS to produce F32 output.
+- Fixes:
+  - Address segmentation faults in benchmarking tool.
+  - Fix clamping issues for FP16 and BF16 in testing framework.
 
 ## v1.8.0
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9acbb44270604b41552387a62e5d38a3cbda3212..ce3df662924dabeaf9aaa7de2ea6f18632546407 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 
 project(KleidiAI
-    VERSION 1.8.0
+    VERSION 1.9.0
     LANGUAGES C CXX
 )
 
diff --git a/kai/kai_common.h b/kai/kai_common.h
index ab367fb363807b63464ddb19938fed943284bf18..b34d699af0be6e534661aadc17dec7254a87c500 100644
--- a/kai/kai_common.h
+++ b/kai/kai_common.h
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ extern "C" {
 ///
 /// @return Project version as a string literal.
 inline const char* kai_get_version(void) {
-    return "1.8.0";
+    return "1.9.0";
 }
 
 /// KleidiAI data types