diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 112bba3..eac80cb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@
                            NEWS for Extreme Tux Racer
 ===============================================================================
 
+Version 0.9                                                   ??th of ???, 20??
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Besides several small improvements and bugfixes, the new Extreme Tux Racer
+version 0.9 features the following changes:
+
+
 Version 0.8                                                   ??th of ???, 20??
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/build/Installer/productInfo.wxi b/build/Installer/productInfo.wxi
index 1aa0352..f9d03da 100644
--- a/build/Installer/productInfo.wxi
+++ b/build/Installer/productInfo.wxi
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Include>
-  <?define ProductName = "Extreme TuxRacer 0.8 dev ($(var.Platform))" ?>
+  <?define ProductName = "Extreme TuxRacer 0.9 dev ($(var.Platform))" ?>
   <?define ProductNameShort = "Extreme TuxRacer" ?>
-  <?define ProductVersion = "0.7.99.0" ?>
+  <?define ProductVersion = "0.8.99.0" ?>
 
   <?define ProductManufacturer = "The ExtremeTuxRacer team" ?>
   <?define ProductDescription = "High speed arctic racing game" ?>
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ec899d8..9f28413 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
-AC_INIT([Extreme Tux Racer], [0.7.99], [https://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer],
+AC_INIT([Extreme Tux Racer], [0.8.99], [https://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer],
         [etr], [https://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/gui.cpp])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
diff --git a/data/credits.lst b/data/credits.lst
index 5623c0d..4f4e8c5 100644
--- a/data/credits.lst
+++ b/data/credits.lst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 *[offs] 0 [text] Extreme Tux Racer [font] 0 [size] 7 [col] 1
-*[offs] 50 [text] Version 0.8 dev [font] 0 [size] 3 [col] 0
+*[offs] 50 [text] Version 0.9 dev [font] 0 [size] 3 [col] 0
 *[offs] 40 [text] Some courses may have been modified from their [font] 0 [size] 2 [col] 0
 *[offs] 20 [text] original versions to fit the requirements of the game. [font] 0 [size] 2 [col] 0
 
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 541fba2..5bcceb4 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-#define ETR_VERSION_STRING "0.8 dev"
-#define ETR_VERSION 0,7,99,0
+#define ETR_VERSION_STRING "0.9 dev"
+#define ETR_VERSION 0,8,99,0