diff --git a/.scripts/build_steps.sh b/.scripts/build_steps.sh
index 6c805a9..af0b9ac 100755
--- a/.scripts/build_steps.sh
+++ b/.scripts/build_steps.sh
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ setup_conda_rc "${FEEDSTOCK_ROOT}" "${RECIPE_ROOT}" "${CONFIG_FILE}"
 
 source run_conda_forge_build_setup
 
+
+
 # make the build number clobber
 make_build_number "${FEEDSTOCK_ROOT}" "${RECIPE_ROOT}" "${CONFIG_FILE}"
 
diff --git a/build-locally.py b/build-locally.py
index e0d408d..6788aea 100755
--- a/build-locally.py
+++ b/build-locally.py
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#!/bin/sh
+"""exec" "python3" "$0" "$@" #"""  # fmt: off # fmt: on
 #
 # This file has been generated by conda-smithy in order to build the recipe
 # locally.
 #
-import os
+# The line above this comment is a bash / sh / zsh guard
+# to stop people from running it with the wrong interpreter
 import glob
+import os
+import platform
 import subprocess
 from argparse import ArgumentParser
-import platform
 
 
 def setup_environment(ns):
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index 1f49541..9cb1433 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {% set name = "xsdata" %}
-{% set version = "24.7" %}
+{% set version = "24.9" %}
 
 package:
   name: {{ name|lower }}
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ package:
 
 source:
   url: https://pypi.io/packages/source/{{ name[0] }}/{{ name }}/{{ name }}-{{ version }}.tar.gz
-  sha256: 80bf84d7ec8d6f1d021c6d1acf8bfe6ade7a9b70eac7c1c197d4b858c990ea85
+  sha256: ecbc872f9bb12658e820126626930371fa3c5170ffa8ac183cc57e342a26e5fb
 
 build:
   noarch: python