diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 54e87fb..759e031 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ sec-2.5.3.tar.gz
 /sec-2.8.1.tar.gz
 /sec-2.8.2.tar.gz
 /sec-2.8.3.tar.gz
+/sec-2.9.0.tar.gz
diff --git a/sec.spec b/sec.spec
index bf003db..48bab05 100644
--- a/sec.spec
+++ b/sec.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           sec
-Version:        2.8.3
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Version:        2.9.0
+Release:        1%{?dist}
 Summary:        Simple Event Correlator script to filter log file entries
 License:        GPLv2+
 URL:            https://simple-evcorr.github.io/
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ chmod 0644 contrib/convert.pl contrib/swatch2sec.pl
 %{_unitdir}/sec@.service
 
 %changelog
+* Thu May 13 2021 Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus <stefansf@fedoraproject.org> - 2.9.0-1
+- New upstream release
+
 * Wed Jan 27 2021 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.3-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index e30ca73..b8d3f32 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (sec-2.8.3.tar.gz) = 9eba7db0dfa3661a3ef4e8aad3eeef1db710784f7a71131991a06918cc4f5634577b8bff3f00fcc1c5d998bf0c1e80efe88e1c1df3f5530b6ab4905ff00f2269
+SHA512 (sec-2.9.0.tar.gz) = 7316b5e01695920800d2caba1cff8f91e47c6c42a9c871481e7059892fcfa649161f19decdbf9c42d8c0cd7eb204b4be26d56babfceabf4b3188304edc2836f8