diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
index a8e0389ec1..9550729b16 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/global.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ require 'exceptions'
 
 ARGV.extend(HomebrewArgvExtension)
 
-HOMEBREW_VERSION = '0.8.1'
+HOMEBREW_VERSION = '0.9'
 HOMEBREW_WWW = 'http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/'
 
 def cache