diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index ac64e41c48..81376ca518 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 6.8.0
+current_version = 6.9.0
 commit = True
 tag = True
 parse = (?P<major>\d+)\.(?P<minor>\d+)\.(?P<patch>\d+)(-(?P<stage>[^.]*)\.(?P<devnum>\d+))?
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 462e6ab9cc..6584cb02de 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 setup(
     name="web3",
     # *IMPORTANT*: Don't manually change the version here. Use the 'bumpversion' utility.
-    version="6.8.0",
+    version="6.9.0",
     description="""web3.py""",
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     long_description=long_description,