diff --git a/.github/.release-please-manifest.json b/.github/.release-please-manifest.json
index 98ecd87e..0cd2cc7e 100644
--- a/.github/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.github/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-    ".": "4.8.2"
+    ".": "4.9.0"
 }
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9372aeeb..b578ff15 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,27 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [4.9.0](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/compare/testcontainers-v4.8.2...testcontainers-v4.9.0) (2024-11-26)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **core:** Support working with env files ([#737](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/737)) ([932ee30](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/commit/932ee307955e3591a63f194aee8e2f6d8e2f6bf9))
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* allow running all tests ([#721](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/721)) ([f958cf9](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/commit/f958cf9fe62a5f3ee2dc255713ec8b16de6a767d))
+* **core:** Avoid hanging upon bad docker host connection ([#742](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/742)) ([4ced198](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/commit/4ced1983162914fe511a6e714f136b670e1dbdfb))
+* **core:** running testcontainer inside container ([#714](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/714)) ([85a6666](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/commit/85a66667c23d76e87aecc6761bbb01429adb3dee))
+* **generic:** Also catch URLError waiting for ServerContainer ([#743](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/743)) ([24e354f](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/commit/24e354f3bfa5912eaf7877da9442a885d7872f1a))
+* update wait_for_logs to not throw on 'created', and an optimization ([#719](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/719)) ([271ca9a](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/commit/271ca9a0fef2e5f2b216457bfee44318e93990bf))
+* Vault health check ([#734](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/734)) ([79434d6](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/commit/79434d6744b2918493884cf8fbf27aeadf78ecfd))
+
+
+### Documentation
+
+* Documentation fix for ServerContainer ([#671](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/issues/671)) ([0303d47](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/commit/0303d47d7173e1c4ec1a4f565efee9b2fe694928))
+
 ## [4.8.2](https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-python/compare/testcontainers-v4.8.1...testcontainers-v4.8.2) (2024-09-27)
 
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a44cc3a3..8bbf82ea 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "testcontainers"
-version = "4.8.2"  # auto-incremented by release-please
+version = "4.9.0"  # auto-incremented by release-please
 description = "Python library for throwaway instances of anything that can run in a Docker container"
 authors = ["Sergey Pirogov <automationremarks@gmail.com>"]
 maintainers = [