diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bde2cad..dc85a0c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
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 ## [Unreleased] - ReleaseDate
+## [0.9.0] - 2025-06-05
+
+### Added
 - prevent out of bound construction and define empty vs nonempty at compile time
 
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@@ -55,7 +58,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 - initial `BoundedVec` implementation including `mapped()`, `first()`, `last()`, to/from array/`Vec`;
 
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-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/ergoplatform/bounded-vec/compare/v0.8.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/ergoplatform/bounded-vec/compare/v0.9.0...HEAD
+[0.9.0]: https://github.com/ergoplatform/bounded-vec/compare/v0.8.0...v0.9.0
 [0.8.0]: https://github.com/ergoplatform/bounded-vec/compare/v0.7.1...v0.8.0
 [0.7.1]: https://github.com/ergoplatform/bounded-vec/compare/v0.7.0...v0.7.1
 [0.7.0]: https://github.com/ergoplatform/bounded-vec/compare/v0.6.0...v0.7.0
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c393b01..dec7f56 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 [package]
 name = "bounded-vec"
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.9.0"
 license = "CC0-1.0"
-authors = ["Denys Zadorozhnyi <denys@zadorozhnyi.com>"]
+authors = [
+    "Denys Zadorozhnyi <denys@zadorozhnyi.com>",
+    "Kamal Ahmad <kamalahmad22@pm.me>",
+]
 edition = "2021"
 description = "Non-empty rust Vec wrapper with type guarantees on lower and upper bounds for items quantity."
 repository = "https://github.com/ergoplatform/bounded-vec"