diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
index 7b596f761..ba987cd53 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ from fontTools.misc.loggingTools import configLogger
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-version = __version__ = "3.9.1.dev0"
+version = __version__ = "3.9.1"
 
 __all__ = ["version", "log", "configLogger"]
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 202b8031d..2cbede8f7 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+3.9.1 (released 2017-03-20)
+---------------------------
+
 - [varLib.merger] Fixed issue while recombining multiple PairPosFormat2
   subtables if they were split because of offset overflows (9798c30).
 - [varLib.merger] Only merge multiple PairPosFormat1 subtables if there is
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index c2c87053f..8840d58dc 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 3.9.1.dev0
+current_version = 3.9.1
 commit = True
 tag = False
 tag_name = {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 45a1457fa..06d970056 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ def find_data_files(manpath="share/man"):
 
 setup(
 	name="fonttools",
-	version="3.9.1.dev0",
+	version="3.9.1",
 	description="Tools to manipulate font files",
 	author="Just van Rossum",
 	author_email="just@letterror.com",