diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2bf7dd9df1..d518f2466c 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ under the License.
 
     <description>The Apache POI project Ant build.</description>
 
-    <property name="version.id" value="3.9-beta1"/>
+    <property name="version.id" value="3.9"/>
 
     <property environment="env"/>
     <!-- the repository to download jars from -->
diff --git a/doap_POI.rdf b/doap_POI.rdf
index 26c1564b4a..e0123c2a84 100644
--- a/doap_POI.rdf
+++ b/doap_POI.rdf
@@ -20,6 +20,21 @@
     <category rdf:resource="http://projects.apache.org/category/content" />
     <category rdf:resource="http://projects.apache.org/category/library" />
     <release>
+      <Version>
+        <name>Apache POI 3.9</name>
+        <created>2012-12-03</created>
+        <revision>3.9</revision>
+      </Version>
+      <Version>
+        <name>Apache POI 3.8</name>
+        <created>2012-03-26</created>
+        <revision>3.8</revision>
+      </Version>
+      <Version>
+        <name>Apache POI 3.7</name>
+        <created>2010-10-29</created>
+        <revision>3.7</revision>
+      </Version>
       <Version>
         <name>Apache POI 3.6</name>
         <created>2009-12-14</created>
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
index dde559a811..72a2a2bcd5 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@
   </header>
 
   <body>
-    <section><title>26 March 2012 - POI 3.8 available</title>
-     <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8. This includes a large number of bug fixes, and some
+    <section><title>03 December 2012 - POI 3.9 available</title>
+     <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.9. This includes a large number of bug fixes, and some
         enhancements (especially text extraction). See the
         <link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt">release notes</link> for more details.
       </p>
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index cd23b88fed..ad157af75a 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     </developers>
 
     <changes>
-        <release version="3.9-beta1" date="2012-??-??">
+        <release version="3.9" date="2012-12-03">
           <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">54188 - Avoid NPE in PPT2PNG</action>
           <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">52628 - Replace System.err info messages with a POILogger</action>
           <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">54137 - improved performance of DataFormatter with Fractions</action>
