diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c8b317ba..ec6eef9c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -73,3 +73,8 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Bugs
 - Displaying `node-lambda -h` returned an error [#127](https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda/issues/127)
 - NPM overwrites `$TMPDIR` [#134](https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda/issues/134)
+
+## [0.8.9] - 2016-09-06
+### Bugs
+- The above mentioned fix for issue [#127](https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda/issues/127) exposed a commander bug, reverted the change
+- Do not exclude package.json, even when specified in excludeGlobs [#141](https://github.com/motdotla/node-lambda/pull/141)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9138a174..ad9d320e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "node-lambda",
-  "version": "0.8.8",
+  "version": "0.8.9",
   "description": "Command line tool for locally running and remotely deploying your node.js applications to Amazon Lambda.",
   "main": "lib/main.js",
   "directories": {
diff --git a/test/main.js b/test/main.js
index 65bb1b60..1e471097 100644
--- a/test/main.js
+++ b/test/main.js
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ describe('node-lambda', function () {
   });
 
   it('version should be set', function () {
-    assert.equal(lambda.version, '0.8.8');
+    assert.equal(lambda.version, '0.8.9');
   });
 
   describe('_params', function () {