diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ae4328a2..b161ceb0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+
+GNU nano 2.1.9 - 2009.02.16
 2009-02-16 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
 	* Add new argument to reset_multis for force redraws without attempting to
 	  guess whether we need to, for functions that we don't have good info about
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7c5d5227..4239ae2c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 #
 # $Id$
 
-AC_INIT([GNU nano], [2.1.9], [nano-devel@gnu.org], [nano])
+AC_INIT([GNU nano], [2.1.9-svn], [nano-devel@gnu.org], [nano])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/nano.c])
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET([])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE