From ca8281a3be8569e4740179846280d498cdeed61c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 13:06:46 -0400
Subject: Bump version

---
 CHANGES.rst         | 6 ++++++
 coverage/version.py | 2 +-
 howto.txt           | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 301f606f..97ac799e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ development at the same time, such as 4.5.x and 5.0.
     ..  Version 7.8.1 --- 2021-07-27
     ..  ----------------------------
 
+Unreleased
+----------
+
+- Nothing yet.
+
+
 .. _changes_50a8:
 
 Version 5.0a8 --- 2019-10-02
diff --git a/coverage/version.py b/coverage/version.py
index ebe82c3b..9ee21faf 100644
--- a/coverage/version.py
+++ b/coverage/version.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # This file is exec'ed in setup.py, don't import anything!
 
 # Same semantics as sys.version_info.
-version_info = (5, 0, 0, 'alpha', 8)
+version_info = (5, 0, 0, 'alpha', 9)
 
 
 def _make_version(major, minor, micro, releaselevel, serial):
diff --git a/howto.txt b/howto.txt
index 9b19b72b..c2d7919d 100644
--- a/howto.txt
+++ b/howto.txt
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@
     - git tag coverage-3.0.1
     - git push
     - git push --tags
+- Update Tidelift:
+    - make upload_relnotes
 - Bump version:
     - coverage/version.py
         - increment version number
@@ -84,8 +86,6 @@
         - wait for the new tag build to finish successfully.
         - visit https://readthedocs.org/dashboard/coverage/advanced/
         - change the default version to the new version
-- Update Tidelift:
-    - make upload_relnotes
 - Visit the fixed issues on GitHub and mention the version it was fixed in.
 - Announce on coveragepy-announce@googlegroups.com .
 - Announce on TIP.
-- 
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