diff --git a/INSTALL.adoc b/INSTALL.adoc
index 233d3b170..9fe95d064 100644
--- a/INSTALL.adoc
+++ b/INSTALL.adoc
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Download a tarball from https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases[] or clone the Tig
 repository https://github.com/jonas/tig[https://github.com/jonas/tig.git].
 
 The latest version is:
-https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.8/tig-2.5.8.tar.gz[tig-2.5.8]
-https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.8/tig-2.5.8.tar.gz.sha256[(sha256)]
+https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.9/tig-2.5.9.tar.gz[tig-2.5.9]
+https://github.com/jonas/tig/releases/download/tig-2.5.9/tig-2.5.9.tar.gz.sha256[(sha256)]
 
 *Note:* Do not use the tar.gz file for version 2.0 because it will fail
 to compile due to issue https://github.com/jonas/tig/pull/283[#283] and
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 20cbb7e45..b3916142f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # The last tagged version. Can be overridden either by the version from
 # git or from the value of the DIST_VERSION environment variable.
-VERSION	= 2.5.8
+VERSION	= 2.5.9
 
 all:
 
diff --git a/NEWS.adoc b/NEWS.adoc
index 9fbc0461f..0e5000d63 100644
--- a/NEWS.adoc
+++ b/NEWS.adoc
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Release notes
 =============
 
-master
-------
+tig-2.5.9
+---------
 
 Improvements: