From f85c52901e7a4a81dd82c46f37345ee6bfe08b42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wenzel Jakob <wenzel.jakob@epfl.ch>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:24:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] starting to work on release v1.9

---
 docs/conf.py              | 4 ++--
 docs/release.rst          | 1 +
 include/pybind11/common.h | 2 +-
 pybind11/_version.py      | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 39d4933e3..4e2c4cef2 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ author = 'Wenzel Jakob'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '1.8'
+version = '1.9'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.8'
+release = '1.9.dev0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/docs/release.rst b/docs/release.rst
index 1b24e3360..305b70772 100644
--- a/docs/release.rst
+++ b/docs/release.rst
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ To release a new version of pybind11:
     - update checksum to match the one computed by pypi
 - Get back to work
     - Update ``_version.py`` (add 'dev' and increment minor).
+    - Update version in ``docs/conf.py``
     - Update version macros in ``include/pybind11/common.h``
     - ``git add`` and ``git commit``.
       ``git push``
diff --git a/include/pybind11/common.h b/include/pybind11/common.h
index 5cab5e79d..560be4331 100644
--- a/include/pybind11/common.h
+++ b/include/pybind11/common.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #define PYBIND11_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define PYBIND11_VERSION_MINOR 8
+#define PYBIND11_VERSION_MINOR 9
 
 /// Include Python header, disable linking to pythonX_d.lib on Windows in debug mode
 #if defined(_MSC_VER)
diff --git a/pybind11/_version.py b/pybind11/_version.py
index afa4cc9be..be66f0732 100644
--- a/pybind11/_version.py
+++ b/pybind11/_version.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-version_info = (1, 8, 'dev0')
+version_info = (1, 9, 'dev0')
 __version__ = '.'.join(map(str, version_info))