diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 73f12c9..428147f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,19 @@
 
 ## 0.1.9 (HEAD)
 * Support async ActiveRecord access with fibers and EventMachine (mperham)
+* string encoding support for 1.9, respecting Encoding.default_internal
+* added support for rake-compiler (tenderlove)
+* bugfixes for ActiveRecord driver
+** one minor bugfix for TimeZone support
+** fix the select_rows method to return what it should according to the docs (r-stu31)
+* Mysql2::Client#fields method added - returns the array of field names from a resultset, as strings
+* Sequel adapter
+** bugfix regarding sybolized field names (Eric Wong)
+** fix query logging in Sequel adapter
+* Lots of nice code cleanup (tenderlove)
+** Mysql2::Error definition moved to pure-Ruby
+** Mysql2::client#initialize definition moved to pure-Ruby
+** Mysql2::Result partially moved to pure-Ruby
 
 ## 0.1.8 (June 2nd, 2010)
 * fixes for AR adapter for timezone juggling
diff --git a/lib/mysql2.rb b/lib/mysql2.rb
index 9fee43f..fb24cfc 100644
--- a/lib/mysql2.rb
+++ b/lib/mysql2.rb
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ require 'mysql2/result'
 #
 # A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby - binding to libmysql
 module Mysql2
-  VERSION = "0.1.8"
+  VERSION = "0.1.9"
 end
diff --git a/mysql2.gemspec b/mysql2.gemspec
index 6b6d12c..1d67599 100644
--- a/mysql2.gemspec
+++ b/mysql2.gemspec
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = %q{mysql2}
-  s.version = "0.1.8"
+  s.version = "0.1.9"
 
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["Brian Lopez"]
-  s.date = %q{2010-07-06}
+  s.date = %q{2010-07-17}
   s.email = %q{seniorlopez@gmail.com}
   s.extensions = ["ext/mysql2/extconf.rb"]
   s.extra_rdoc_files = [
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
      "ext/mysql2/mysql2_ext.h",
      "ext/mysql2/result.c",
      "ext/mysql2/result.h",
+     "lib/active_record/connection_adapters/em_mysql2_adapter.rb",
      "lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql2_adapter.rb",
+     "lib/active_record/fiber_patches.rb",
      "lib/arel/engines/sql/compilers/mysql2_compiler.rb",
      "lib/mysql2.rb",
      "lib/mysql2/client.rb",