diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
index 20a92e2..fe08e18 100644
--- a/NOTICE
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Apache Mynewt
-Copyright 2015-2020 The Apache Software Foundation
+Copyright 2015-2021 The Apache Software Foundation
 
 This product includes software developed at
 The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
index 9650c83..609f840 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # RELEASE NOTES
 
-18 March 2020 - Apache Newt v1.8.0
+24 March 2020 - Apache Newt v1.9.0
 
 For full release notes, please visit the
 [Apache Mynewt Wiki](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MYNEWT/Release+Notes).
diff --git a/newt/newtutil/newtutil.go b/newt/newtutil/newtutil.go
index 9493931..0ae16bc 100644
--- a/newt/newtutil/newtutil.go
+++ b/newt/newtutil/newtutil.go
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@
 	"mynewt.apache.org/newt/util"
 )
 
-var NewtVersion = Version{1, 8, 9900}
-var NewtVersionStr = "1.9.0-dev"
+var NewtVersion = Version{1, 9, 0}
+var NewtVersionStr = "1.9.0"
 var NewtGitHash = "unknown"
 var NewtDate = "unknown"
 
-var NewtBlinkyTag string = "master"
+var NewtBlinkyTag string = "mynewt_1_9_0_tag"
 var NewtNumJobs int
 var NewtForce bool
 var NewtAsk bool