diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index eeea3b849..75d6658e1 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 {
   "gapic": "0.1.0",
-  "gapic-common": "0.8.0"
+  "gapic-common": "0.9.0"
 }
diff --git a/gapic-common/CHANGELOG.md b/gapic-common/CHANGELOG.md
index 7e763d095..a1deff3fe 100644
--- a/gapic-common/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/gapic-common/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Release History
 
+### 0.9.0 (2022-05-18)
+
+#### Features
+
+* add full grpc transcoding to gapic-common
+#### Bug Fixes
+
+* small fixes for combined libraries and testing
+
 ### 0.8.0 / 2022-01-20
 
 * Add generic LROs helpers. These are used for the Nonstandard (not conforming to AIP-151) Cloud LROs.
diff --git a/gapic-common/lib/gapic/common/version.rb b/gapic-common/lib/gapic/common/version.rb
index f5d8378b6..0ba92e687 100644
--- a/gapic-common/lib/gapic/common/version.rb
+++ b/gapic-common/lib/gapic/common/version.rb
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@
 
 module Gapic
   module Common
-    VERSION = "0.8.0".freeze
+    VERSION = "0.9.0".freeze
   end
 end