diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 104bb318..7e310bae 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.9.8.4
+0.9.9
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1640a693..15af2b8d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+davical (0.9.9-0) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * New upstream release (closes: #508673, #573687)
+
+ -- Andrew McMillan <debian@mcmillan.net.nz>  Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:35:10 +1200
+
 davical (0.9.8.4-0) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4879af53..c156988a 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Homepage: http://davical.org/
 
 Package: davical
 Architecture: all
-Depends: debconf (>= 1.0.32), php5-pgsql, postgresql-client-8.4 | postgresql-client-8.3 | postgresql-client-8.2 | postgresql-client-8.1, libawl-php (= 0.42-0), libdbd-pg-perl, libyaml-perl
+Depends: debconf (>= 1.0.32), php5-pgsql, postgresql-client-8.4 | postgresql-client-8.3 | postgresql-client-8.2 | postgresql-client-8.1, libawl-php (= 0.43-0), libdbd-pg-perl, libyaml-perl
 Conflicts: rscds
 Description: The DAViCal CalDAV Server
  The DAViCal CalDAV Server is designed to trivially store
diff --git a/htdocs/always.php b/htdocs/always.php
index 18e128ba..083c2da9 100644
--- a/htdocs/always.php
+++ b/htdocs/always.php
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ init_gettext( 'davical', $c->locale_path );
 *
 */
 $c->code_version = 0;
-$c->version_string = '0.9.8.4'; // The actual version # is replaced into that during the build /release process
+$c->version_string = '0.9.9'; // The actual version # is replaced into that during the build /release process
 if ( isset($c->version_string) && preg_match( '/(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)(.*)/', $c->version_string, $matches) ) {
   $c->code_major = $matches[1];
   $c->code_minor = $matches[2];