diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 873f54e..1d10d7c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@ libxml2-2.7.7.tar.gz
 /libxml2-2.7.8.tar.gz
 /libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz
 /libxml2-2.9.0-rc1.tar.gz
+/libxml2-2.9.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/libxml2.spec b/libxml2.spec
index cf16a1c..6a37f1f 100644
--- a/libxml2.spec
+++ b/libxml2.spec
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 Summary: Library providing XML and HTML support
 Name: libxml2
 Version: 2.9.0
-Release: 0rc1%{?dist}%{?extra_release}
+Release: 1%{?dist}%{?extra_release}
 License: MIT
 Group: Development/Libraries
-Source: ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-%{version}-rc1.tar.gz
+Source: ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
 BuildRequires: python python-devel zlib-devel pkgconfig xz-devel
 URL: http://xmlsoft.org/
@@ -143,7 +143,15 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 %doc doc/python.html
 
 %changelog
-* Fri Aug 10 2012 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.8.0-0rc1
+* Tue Sep 11 2012 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.0-1
+- upstream release of 2.9.0
+- A few new API entry points
+- More resilient push parser mode
+- A lot of portability improvement
+- Faster XPath evaluation
+- a lot of bug fixes and smaller improvement
+
+* Fri Aug 10 2012 Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> - 2.9.0-0rc1
 - upstream release candidate 1 of 2.9.0
 - introduce a small API change, but ABI compatible, see
   https://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2012-August/msg00005.html
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 29377ed..07cc6d6 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2c1f38f20521e7f3620877b211c6b04c  libxml2-2.9.0-rc1.tar.gz
+5b9bebf4f5d2200ae2c4efe8fa6103f7  libxml2-2.9.0.tar.gz