diff --git a/internal/version/version.go b/internal/version/version.go
index ebeb65d..f3dca3d 100644
--- a/internal/version/version.go
+++ b/internal/version/version.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 // Repo is the current version of the client libraries in this
 // repo. It should be a date in YYYYMMDD format.
-const Repo = "20200727"
+const Repo = "20200817"
 
 // Go returns the Go runtime version. The returned string
 // has no whitespace.
diff --git a/spanner/CHANGES.md b/spanner/CHANGES.md
index 126a3fc..130df85 100644
--- a/spanner/CHANGES.md
+++ b/spanner/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Changes
 
+## v1.9.0
+* Features:
+  - feat(spanner): support custom field type (#2614)
+* Bugfixes:
+  - fix(spanner): call ctx.cancel after stats have been recorded (#2728)
+  - fix(spanner): retry session not found for read (#2724)
+  - fix(spanner): specify credentials with SPANNER_EMULATOR_HOST (#2701)
+  - fix(spanner): update pdml to retry EOS internal error (#2678)
+* Misc:
+  - test(spanner): unskip tests for emulator (#2675)
+* spansql/spannertest:
+  - spanner/spansql: restructure types and parsing for column options (#2656)
+  - spanner/spannertest: return error for Read with no keys (#2655)
+
 ## v1.8.0
 
 * Features: