diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6417b1d..5c04b35 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@
 /libblockdev-1.6.tar.gz
 /libblockdev-1.7.tar.gz
 /libblockdev-1.8.tar.gz
+/libblockdev-1.9.tar.gz
diff --git a/libblockdev.spec b/libblockdev.spec
index 0bc6616..357d00d 100644
--- a/libblockdev.spec
+++ b/libblockdev.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:        libblockdev
-Version:     1.8
-Release:     2%{?dist}
+Version:     1.9
+Release:     1%{?dist}
 Summary:     A library for low-level manipulation with block devices
 License:     LGPLv2+
 URL:         https://github.com/rhinstaller/libblockdev
@@ -572,6 +572,10 @@ find %{buildroot} -type f -name "*.la" | xargs %{__rm}
 %files plugins-all
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Jul 27 2016 Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime@redhat.com> - 1.9-1
+- Add functions for creating thin/cache pools from existing LVs (vpodzime)
+- Add the new mpath_get_members() function to the docs (vpodzime)
+
 * Tue Jul 19 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.8-2
 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Packages
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index bdc72bf..46db293 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-35150e40dcf19b7971fb7896b96d0d22  libblockdev-1.8.tar.gz
+4fc2e0563981c6553a87aa2dcc578c6d  libblockdev-1.9.tar.gz