diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 33991cb64..000000000
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-Release type: minor
-
-* Upgrade code to new minimum supported Python version: 3.8
-* Settings support for ``pathlib.Path`` `(#2758) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2758>`_
-* Various improvements to Simple theme (`#2976 <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2976>`_ & `#3234 <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3234>`_)
-* Use Furo as Sphinx documentation theme `(#3023) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3023>`_
-* Default to 100 articles maximum in feeds `(#3127) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3127>`_
-* Add ``period_archives common context`` variable `(#3148) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3148>`_
-* Use ``watchfiles`` as the file-watching backend `(#3151) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3151>`_
-* Add GitHub Actions workflow for GitHub Pages `(#3189) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3189>`_
-* Allow dataclasses in settings `(#3204) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3204>`_
-* Switch build tool to PDM instead of Setuptools/Poetry `(#3220) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3220>`_
-* Provide a ``plugin_enabled`` Jinja test for themes `(#3235) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3235>`_
-* Preserve connection order in Blinker `(#3238) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3238>`_
-* Remove social icons from default ``notmyidea`` theme `(#3240) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3240>`_
-* Remove unreliable ``WRITE_SELECTED`` feature `(#3243) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3243>`_
-* Importer: Report broken embedded video links when importing from Tumblr `(#3177) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/3177>`_
-* Importer: Remove newline addition when iterating Photo post types `(#3178) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/3178>`_
-* Importer: Force timestamp conversion in Tumblr importer to be UTC with offset `(#3221) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3221>`_
-* Importer: Use tempfile for intermediate HTML file for Pandoc `(#3221) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3221>`_
-* Switch linters to Ruff `(#3223) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3223>`_
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 88353ed4e..98da5b208 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,29 @@
 Release history
 ###############
 
+4.9.0 - 2023-11-12
+==================
+
+* Upgrade code to new minimum supported Python version: 3.8
+* Settings support for ``pathlib.Path`` `(#2758) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2758>`_
+* Various improvements to Simple theme (`#2976 <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/2976>`_ & `#3234 <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3234>`_)
+* Use Furo as Sphinx documentation theme `(#3023) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3023>`_
+* Default to 100 articles maximum in feeds `(#3127) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3127>`_
+* Add ``period_archives common context`` variable `(#3148) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3148>`_
+* Use ``watchfiles`` as the file-watching backend `(#3151) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3151>`_
+* Add GitHub Actions workflow for GitHub Pages `(#3189) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3189>`_
+* Allow dataclasses in settings `(#3204) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3204>`_
+* Switch build tool to PDM instead of Setuptools/Poetry `(#3220) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3220>`_
+* Provide a ``plugin_enabled`` Jinja test for themes `(#3235) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3235>`_
+* Preserve connection order in Blinker `(#3238) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3238>`_
+* Remove social icons from default ``notmyidea`` theme `(#3240) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3240>`_
+* Remove unreliable ``WRITE_SELECTED`` feature `(#3243) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3243>`_
+* Importer: Report broken embedded video links when importing from Tumblr `(#3177) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/3177>`_
+* Importer: Remove newline addition when iterating Photo post types `(#3178) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/3178>`_
+* Importer: Force timestamp conversion in Tumblr importer to be UTC with offset `(#3221) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3221>`_
+* Importer: Use tempfile for intermediate HTML file for Pandoc `(#3221) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3221>`_
+* Switch linters to Ruff `(#3223) <https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/pull/3223>`_
+
 4.8.0 - 2022-07-11
 ==================
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d40e6bce3..e0e118f5c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = "pelican"
 authors = [{ name = "Justin Mayer", email = "authors@getpelican.com" }]
 description = "Static site generator supporting Markdown and reStructuredText"
-version = "4.8.0"
+version = "4.9.0"
 license = { text = "AGPLv3" }
 readme = "README.rst"
 keywords = ["static site generator", "static sites", "ssg"]