diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5d13c55..9cdbfe2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.0.0rc9 /2025-01-30
+* Fixes decoding account ids
+
 ## 1.0.0rc8 /2025-01-30
 * Minor bug fixes
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8116899..f2f4c9e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "async-substrate-interface"
-version = "1.0.0rc8"
+version = "1.0.0rc9"
 description = "Asyncio library for interacting with substrate. Mostly API-compatible with py-substrate-interface"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }