diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 24d076b2..197443ff 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ python_variables: &python_variables
   CIRCLE_ARTIFACTS: /tmp/circleci-artifacts
   CIRCLE_TEST_REPORTS: /tmp/circleci-test-results
   CODECOV_TOKEN: b0d35139-0a75-427a-907b-2c78a762f8f0
-  VERSION: 3.8.1
+  VERSION: 3.9.0
   PANDOC_RELEASES_URL: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases
 python_formatting: &python_formatting
     parallelism: 1
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 223ec0fd..58d7f798 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 ## Changelog
 
+### 3.9.0 (2023-11)
+* Updated web data uploads to be turned off by default
+* [#835](https://github.com/man-group/dtale/issues/835): fixed bug with `dtale.show(open_browser=True)`
+* [#834](https://github.com/man-group/dtale/issues/834): fix for plotly tooltips in charts
+* [#831](https://github.com/man-group/dtale/issues/831): time difference functionality
+
 ### 3.8.1 (2023-11-29)
 * [#823](https://github.com/man-group/dtale/issues/823): wrap skew/kurtosis calculations in try/except for pyarrow
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ddb590c0..26c8acef 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ Here's the options at you disposal:
   * pandas.util.testing.makeTimeDataFrame
 
 
-**Starting with version 3.8.1 web uploads will be turned off by default.
+**Starting with version 3.9.0 web uploads will be turned off by default.
 Web uploads are vulnerable to blind server side request forgery, please only use in trusted environments.**
 
 **You can turn this feature on by doing one of the following:**
diff --git a/docker/dtale.env b/docker/dtale.env
index c7e422a3..0a0c2587 100644
--- a/docker/dtale.env
+++ b/docker/dtale.env
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-VERSION=3.8.1
+VERSION=3.9.0
 TZ=America/New_York
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 26715729..59597f2d 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = "3.8.1"
+version = "3.9.0"
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "3.8.1"
+release = "3.9.0"
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index 65451b04..0255a8e4 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "dtale",
-  "version": "3.8.1",
+  "version": "3.9.0",
   "description": "Visualizer for Pandas Data Structures",
   "main": "main.js",
   "directories": {
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6a114760..f6205687 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
 
 setup(
     name="dtale",
-    version="3.8.1",
+    version="3.9.0",
     author="MAN Alpha Technology",
     author_email="ManAlphaTech@man.com",
     description="Web Client for Visualizing Pandas Objects",