diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 9f37e94c..407f9e52 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Release Notes
 PlatformIO 2.0
 --------------
 
-2.9.0 (2016-04-??)
+2.9.0 (2016-04-28)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 * Project generator for `CodeBlocks IDE <http://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/ide/codeblocks.html>`__
diff --git a/platformio/__init__.py b/platformio/__init__.py
index 3ea5435b..bc8d2788 100644
--- a/platformio/__init__.py
+++ b/platformio/__init__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 import sys
 
-VERSION = (2, 9, "0.dev2")
+VERSION = (2, 9, 0)
 __version__ = ".".join([str(s) for s in VERSION])
 
 __title__ = "platformio"