diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e6200ae3..77dc1d9b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ reportMissingModuleSource = false
 
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "sil-machine"
-version = "1.8.11"
+version = "1.9.0"
 description = "A natural language processing library that is focused on providing tools for resource-poor languages."
 license = "MIT"
 authors = ["SIL International"]