diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 1fd681dc630147c210f753d8b03b77606aba6a2f..7966a7c9a0afbdf35413016f68d618a39a5dc2bf 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-version 0.9 (unreleased) - twitter feed, rails 4 and deprecations
+version 0.9 - twitter feed, rails 4 and deprecations
 ----------------------------------------------------
 
-This release features a great contribution from the Rails Girls Summer of Code
-again! The landing page of the webapp can now include a twitter feed to display
+This release features a great contribution from the Rails Girls Summer of Code:
+The landing page of the webapp can now include a twitter feed to display
 news from the provider.
+
 Other than that this is a maintainance and transition release.
 
 * Twitter feed on main page (thanks theaamanda and lilaluca).
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index e944e8610f5a87de486b8ae240b9980b73f76486..235cbaa17d4adbde3d943b2521afb3b05792f5f9 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 PATH
   remote: engines/billing
   specs:
-    leap_web_billing (0.8.1)
+    leap_web_billing (0.9.0)
       braintree
 
 PATH
   remote: engines/support
   specs:
-    leap_web_help (0.8.1)
+    leap_web_help (0.9.0)
 
 PATH
   remote: vendor/gems/certificate_authority
diff --git a/leap_web.gemspec b/leap_web.gemspec
index 125c93013db46b5b99619582ed60b0e9bb93916e..da9d2db9aab11cd185ae2a65fa59bdc56c771597 100644
--- a/leap_web.gemspec
+++ b/leap_web.gemspec
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.files = Dir['*.md', 'lib/leap_web.rb', 'lib/leap_web/*']
   s.require_path = 'lib'
   s.requirements << 'none'
-  s.required_ruby_version = '>= 1.8.7'
+  s.required_ruby_version = '>= 2.1.0'
   s.required_rubygems_version = ">= 1.3.6"
 
   s.author = 'Azul'
diff --git a/lib/leap_web/version.rb b/lib/leap_web/version.rb
index 6fc55319c06e552e92937e0d64e0b1fbc253ca1a..ba2eb872559f4d7ac8e084f315bf8c851c3fbfd4 100644
--- a/lib/leap_web/version.rb
+++ b/lib/leap_web/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module LeapWeb
-  VERSION = "0.8.1" unless defined?(LeapWeb::VERSION)
+  VERSION = "0.9.0" unless defined?(LeapWeb::VERSION)
 end