diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 10f0b1c..2b99ef1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+0.9  21-07-2022
+[Ko van der Sloot]
+  - fix for PREFIX rules in french and italian
+  - small fix to prevent loosing a character in the PREFIX rule. (see https://github.com/LanguageMachines/ucto/issues/87 ) This doesn't fix the unwanted splits though.
+  - added SYMBOL, PICTOGRAM and EMOTICON to setdefinitions
+  - relaxed the e-mail rule a bit.
+
+[Piroska Lendvai]
+  - Suggestions for German abbreviations
+
+[Antal van den Bosch]
+  - New config file for English Twitter data. Recognizes and retains #hastags and @mentions.
+
 0.8  29-11-2018
 [Ko van der Sloot]
   - separated .abr files from there main files for all Languages
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5263b93..eef90af 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-AC_INIT([uctodata], [0.8], [lamasoftware@science.ru.nl])
+AC_INIT([uctodata], [0.9], [lamasoftware@science.ru.nl])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([configure.ac])
 AC_PROG_LN_S