diff --git a/.meta/dietpi-survey_report b/.meta/dietpi-survey_report
index 139bbd161a..8d0d36a6d2 100755
--- a/.meta/dietpi-survey_report
+++ b/.meta/dietpi-survey_report
@@ -732,14 +732,16 @@ shopt -s extglob
 
 	aSOFTWARE_NAME9_7=()
 	aSOFTWARE_NAME9_8=()
+	aSOFTWARE_NAME9_9=()
 	for i in "${!aSOFTWARE_NAME9_6[@]}"
 	do
 		aSOFTWARE_NAME9_7[i]=${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_6[i]}
 		aSOFTWARE_NAME9_8[i]=${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_7[i]}
+		aSOFTWARE_NAME9_9[i]=${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_8[i]}
 	done
 
 	# Pre-create software counter array so that we can see also software (available in newest version) with 0 installs
-	for i in "${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_8[@]}"
+	for i in "${aSOFTWARE_NAME9_9[@]}"
 	do
 		aSOFTWARE[$i]=0
 	done
diff --git a/.update/version b/.update/version
index 2cb5377cf2..c3a736ce59 100644
--- a/.update/version
+++ b/.update/version
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 # Available DietPi version
 G_REMOTE_VERSION_CORE=9
-G_REMOTE_VERSION_SUB=8
-G_REMOTE_VERSION_RC=0
+G_REMOTE_VERSION_SUB=9
+G_REMOTE_VERSION_RC=-1
 # Minimum DietPi version to allow update
 G_MIN_VERSION_CORE=7
 G_MIN_VERSION_SUB=0
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index b36930ce8b..1db4e28b98 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+v9.9
+(2024-11-16)
+
+New software:
+
+Enhancements:
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+As always, many smaller code performance and stability improvements, visual and spelling fixes have been done, too much to list all of them here. Check out all code changes of this release on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/ADDME
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 v9.8
 (2024-10-17)
 
diff --git a/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals b/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
index 8a6d02944d..36a6efd12c 100644
--- a/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
+++ b/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
 	[[ -f '/boot/dietpi/.version' ]] && . /boot/dietpi/.version
 	# - Assign defaults/code version as fallback
 	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
-	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=8
-	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=0
+	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=9
+	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=-1
 	[[ $G_GITBRANCH ]] || G_GITBRANCH='master'
 	[[ $G_GITOWNER ]] || G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
 	# - Save current version and Git branch