diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py
index fa301bc..eaed70e 100644
--- a/__init__.py
+++ b/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Automatically generated by setup.py
-__version__ = '0.9-dev1-27-g14b30b2'
+__version__ = '0.9-alpha1'