diff --git a/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl b/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
index 9faf867111..f2ce6ce3cd 100755
--- a/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
+++ b/installer/data/mysql/updatedatabase.pl
@@ -9841,6 +9841,13 @@ if ( CheckVersion($DBversion) ) {
     SetVersion ($DBversion);
 }
 
+$DBversion = "3.18.09.000";
+if ( CheckVersion($DBversion) ) {
+    print "Upgrade to $DBversion\n"; 
+    SetVersion ($DBversion);
+    print "Done (3.18.9 release)\n";
+}
+
 =head1 FUNCTIONS
 
 =head2 TableExists($table)
diff --git a/kohaversion.pl b/kohaversion.pl
index 6ba966e772..7b200fa06a 100644
--- a/kohaversion.pl
+++ b/kohaversion.pl
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ the kohaversion is divided in 4 parts :
 use strict;
 
 sub kohaversion {
-    our $VERSION = '3.18.08.001';
+    our $VERSION = '3.18.09.000';
     # version needs to be set this way
     # so that it can be picked up by Makefile.PL
     # during install