diff --git a/docs/source/changelog.md b/docs/source/changelog.md
index a4239ce40..17e5be911 100644
--- a/docs/source/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/source/changelog.md
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
 
+## 2.9.0 (2022-08-08)
+
+- Updated PDFium from `5215` to `5226` (autorelease).
+
+
 ## 2.8.0 (2022-08-02)
 
 - Updated PDFium from `5200` to `5215` (autorelease).
diff --git a/src/pypdfium2/version.py b/src/pypdfium2/version.py
index da626640e..7d30ad5cf 100644
--- a/src/pypdfium2/version.py
+++ b/src/pypdfium2/version.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 __all__ = ["V_PYPDFIUM2", "V_LIBPDFIUM", "IS_SOURCEBUILD"]
 
 V_MAJOR = 2
-V_MINOR = 8
+V_MINOR = 9
 V_PATCH = 0
 V_BETA = None
 
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     V_PYPDFIUM2 += "b%s" % V_BETA
 
 #: PDFium library version string (git tag or commit hash).
-V_LIBPDFIUM = "5215"
+V_LIBPDFIUM = "5226"
 
 #: Whether the included PDFium binary was built from source locally (:data:`True`) or downloaded from pdfium-binaries (:data:`False`).
 IS_SOURCEBUILD = False