diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 53f0c1a29c1..ac6992329f0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,49 @@
-2012.08.22, Version 0.8.8 (Stable)
+2012.09.11, Version 0.8.9 (Stable)
+
+* v8: upgrade to 3.11.10.22
+
+* GYP: upgrade to r1477
+
+* npm: Upgrade to 1.1.61
+
+* npm: Don't create world-writable files (isaacs)
+
+* windows: fix single-accept mode for shared server sockets (Bert Belder)
+
+* windows: fix uninitialized memory access in uv_update_time() (Bert Belder)
+
+* windows: don't throw when a signal handler is attached (Bert Belder)
+
+* unix: fix memory leak in udp (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: map errno ESPIPE (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix, windows: fix memory corruption in fs-poll.c (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* sunos: fix os.cpus() on x86_64 (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* child process: fix processes with IPC channel don't emit 'close' (Bert Belder)
+
+* build: add a "--dest-os" option to force a gyp "flavor" (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* build: set `process.platform` to "sunos" on SunOS (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* build: fix `make -j` fails after `make clean` (Bearice Ren)
+
+* build: fix openssl configuration for "arm" builds (Nathan Rajlich)
+
+* tls: support unix domain socket/named pipe in tls.connect (Shigeki Ohtsu)
+
+* https: make https.get() accept a URL (koichik)
+
+* http: respect HTTP/1.0 TE header (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* crypto, tls: Domainify setSNICallback, pbkdf2, randomBytes (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* stream.pipe: Don't call destroy() unless it's a function (isaacs)
+
+
+2012.08.22, Version 0.8.8 (Stable), a299c97bbc701f4d460e91214d7bfe7a9589d361
 
 * V8: upgrade to 3.11.10.19
 
diff --git a/doc/api/process.markdown b/doc/api/process.markdown
index 3be24db43a0..8d7bb48b3dc 100644
--- a/doc/api/process.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/process.markdown
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ What processor architecture you're running on: `'arm'`, `'ia32'`, or `'x64'`.
 ## process.platform
 
 What platform you're running on:
-`'darwin'`, `'freebsd'`, `'linux'`, `'solaris'` or `'win32'`
+`'darwin'`, `'freebsd'`, `'linux'`, `'sunos'` or `'win32'`
 
     console.log('This platform is ' + process.platform);
 
diff --git a/doc/community/index.html b/doc/community/index.html
index 3ea98c137c3..f12de7b47b9 100644
--- a/doc/community/index.html
+++ b/doc/community/index.html
@@ -129,24 +129,34 @@
               the main event in the United States; they are organized by
               <a href="http://www.mikealrogers.com/">Mikeal Rogers</a>.
             </p>
+
+            <p>
+              <a href="http://nodedublin.com/">Node Dublin</a> is a Node
+              conference in Dublin Ireland, organized by Cian O'Maiden.
+            </p>
+
             <p>
               <a href="http://nodefest.jp/">NodeFest (東京Node学園祭)</a> is
               organized by the <a href="http://nodejs.jp">Node.js Japan user
               group</a>.
             </p>
+
             <p>
               <a href="http://nodecamp.de/">NodeCamp.de</a> in Cologne,
               Germany is organized by <a href="railslove.de">Rails Love</a>.
             </p>
+
             <p>
               An <a href="http://nodejsconf.it/">Italian Node.js
               Conference</a> exists as well.
             </p>
+
             <p>
               <a href="http://nodesummit.com/">Node Summit</a> is a conference
               in San Francisco focusing on the adoption of Node in larger
               companies.
             </p>
+
             <p>
               <a href="http://jsconf.com/">JSConf</a> organizes the main
               JavaScript conferences.
diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html
index cb98e4c77ce..a9a8546bd64 100644
--- a/doc/index.html
+++ b/doc/index.html
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
         lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time
         applications that run across distributed devices.</p>
 
+        <p>Current Version: __VERSION__</p>
+
         <div class=buttons>
         <a href="http://nodejs.org/dist/__VERSION__/node-__VERSION__.tar.gz" class="button downloadbutton" id="downloadbutton">INSTALL</a>
 
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@
         ><a href="api/" class="button" id="docsbutton">API Docs</a>
         </div>
 
-        <a href="http://github.com/joyent/node"><img class="forkme" src="images/forkme.png" alt="Fork me on GitHub"></a>
+        <a href="http://github.com/joyent/node"><img class="forkme" src="http://nodejs.org/images/forkme.png" alt="Fork me on GitHub"></a>
     </div>
 
     <div id="quotes" class="clearfix">
diff --git a/src/node_version.h b/src/node_version.h
index ed000ad3af7..44f63c24680 100644
--- a/src/node_version.h
+++ b/src/node_version.h
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #define NODE_MAJOR_VERSION 0
 #define NODE_MINOR_VERSION 8
 #define NODE_PATCH_VERSION 9
-#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
+#define NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
 
 #ifndef NODE_STRINGIFY
 #define NODE_STRINGIFY(n) NODE_STRINGIFY_HELPER(n)
diff --git a/test/simple/test-fs-watch.js b/test/simple/test-fs-watch.js
index 44510b20d71..2ad05f2e117 100644
--- a/test/simple/test-fs-watch.js
+++ b/test/simple/test-fs-watch.js
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ try { fs.mkdirSync(testsubdir, 0700); } catch (e) {}
 assert.doesNotThrow(
     function() {
       var watcher = fs.watch(testsubdir, function(event, filename) {
-        var renameEv = process.platform === 'solaris' ? 'change' : 'rename';
+        var renameEv = process.platform === 'sunos' ? 'change' : 'rename';
         assert.equal(renameEv, event);
         if (expectFilePath) {
           assert.equal('newfile.txt', filename);