From 1e89d5e51cb45f3e77a48d4983bf980088334fac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akshita Bhagia <akshita23bhagia@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 23:50:56 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare for release v2.9.0

---
 CHANGELOG.md               | 2 ++
 allennlp_models/version.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 96769b4f8..7b979ec28 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+## [v2.9.0](https://github.com/allenai/allennlp-models/releases/tag/v2.9.0) - 2022-01-27
+
 ### Added
 
 - Added Python 3.9 to the testing matrix
diff --git a/allennlp_models/version.py b/allennlp_models/version.py
index eeebb5094..8ad2e9b16 100644
--- a/allennlp_models/version.py
+++ b/allennlp_models/version.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import os
 
 _MAJOR = "2"
-_MINOR = "8"
+_MINOR = "9"
 _PATCH = "0"
 # This is mainly for nightly builds which have the suffix ".dev$DATE". See
 # https://semver.org/#is-v123-a-semantic-version for the semantics.