diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5926223..c3bb4b8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+For Release 0.9 - Jan 19, 2021
+
+    - Speed up bv->url-encoded-bytevector
+    - Improve reliability of parallel builds
+
 For Release 0.8 - Jan 11, 2021
 
     - Eliminate all traces of gnulib
@@ -9,7 +14,7 @@ For Release 0.8 - Jan 11, 2021
     - Use pkg-config instead of curl-config to gather information
       about the libcurl install
     - Remove ChangeLog
-    
+
 For Release 0.7 - Jan 1, 2021
 
     - Eliminate Guile 2.0 support
diff --git a/README b/README
index 826d338..efc1444 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ client-side URL transfers, like requesting documents from http or ftp
 servers.  It is based on the libcurl library.
 
 If trying to build this from the repository instead of a tarball,
-you'll need to run 'autoreconf -vi'.  There is a 'bootstrap' script
-but it is just a call to autoreconf
+you'll need to run 'autoreconf -vi'.  There is a 'bootstrap' script,
+but, it is just a call to 'autoreconf'.
 
 This is an autotools build, so usually building is a "./configure &&
 make && make install" sort of thing.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f1c3800..2eadf33 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 ##################
 # Package info
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
-AC_INIT([guile_curl],[0.8],[spk121@yahoo.com])
+AC_INIT([guile_curl],[0.9],[spk121@yahoo.com])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([no-dependencies subdir-objects -Wall foreign])
 PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
diff --git a/test/setopt.scm b/test/setopt.scm
index 8a6dc7d..8292766 100644
--- a/test/setopt.scm
+++ b/test/setopt.scm
@@ -98,4 +98,5 @@
 (test-assert "'http-content-decoding #t" (check-setopt 'http-content-decoding #t))
 (test-assert "'http-transfer-decoding #t" (check-setopt 'http-transfer-decoding #t))
 (false-if-exception (delete-file "cookie.txt"))
+
 (test-end "setopt")