diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 71083b18..9d00215d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,20 +1,26 @@
-## unreleased
+## v1.9.0 - 2022-09-06
 
 New features:
 
   - Allow unquoted semicolons in query strings in the new API.  There are
-    corner cases whene it is needed, as reported in issue #87, and a parser
+    corner cases where it is needed, as reported in issue #87, and a parser
     which rejects semicolons are still available for loading schema files
     statement by statement.
+
   - Add support for MySQL and MariaDB configuration files, as a solution to
     issue #86.
+
   - Add a limit to the number of times a database connection is reused when
     pooling connections (#94).  Thanks to Peter Mondlock for investigating
     resource usage server side motivating this addition.
 
+  - Provide access to the raw SQLite3 connection handle for the purpose of
+    defining custom functions (#56).
+
 Fixes:
 
   - Add missing dune dependency on unix (GPR#85 by David Allsopp).
+
   - Documentation fixes (GPR#82, GPR#83, GPR#84 by Reynir Björnsson,
     GPR#88 by Jonathan Duarte, and GPR#92 by Jim Tittsler).
 
diff --git a/caqti-async.opam b/caqti-async.opam
index 566148c9..165bdb60 100644
--- a/caqti-async.opam
+++ b/caqti-async.opam
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ depends: [
   "alcotest-async" {with-test & >= "1.5.0"}
   "async_kernel" {>= "v0.11.0"}
   "async_unix" {>= "v0.11.0"}
-  "caqti" {>= "1.8.0" & < "1.9.0~"}
+  "caqti" {>= "1.8.0" & < "1.10.0~"}
   "caqti-dynload" {with-test & >= "1.0.0" & < "2.0.0~"}
   "caqti-driver-sqlite3" {with-test & >= "1.0.0" & < "2.0.0~"}
   "cmdliner" {with-test & >= "1.1.0"}
diff --git a/caqti-driver-mariadb.opam b/caqti-driver-mariadb.opam
index 1fd10c9a..f3125bf0 100644
--- a/caqti-driver-mariadb.opam
+++ b/caqti-driver-mariadb.opam
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ bug-reports: "https://github.com/paurkedal/ocaml-caqti/issues"
 depends: [
   "alcotest" {with-test & >= "1.5.0"}
   "ocaml"
-  "caqti" {>= "1.8.0" & < "1.9.0~"}
+  "caqti" {>= "1.9.0" & < "1.10.0~"}
   "cmdliner" {with-test & >= "1.1.0"}
   "dune" {>= "2.0"}
   "mariadb" {>= "1.1.1"}
diff --git a/caqti-driver-postgresql.opam b/caqti-driver-postgresql.opam
index 458edcad..7ffe7bc1 100644
--- a/caqti-driver-postgresql.opam
+++ b/caqti-driver-postgresql.opam
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ bug-reports: "https://github.com/paurkedal/ocaml-caqti/issues"
 depends: [
   "alcotest" {with-test & >= "1.5.0"}
   "ocaml"
-  "caqti" {>= "1.8.0" & < "1.9.0~"}
+  "caqti" {>= "1.9.0" & < "1.10.0~"}
   "cmdliner" {with-test & >= "1.1.0"}
   "dune" {>= "2.0"}
   "odoc" {with-doc}
diff --git a/caqti-driver-sqlite3.opam b/caqti-driver-sqlite3.opam
index 5c4a7573..80026e4c 100644
--- a/caqti-driver-sqlite3.opam
+++ b/caqti-driver-sqlite3.opam
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ bug-reports: "https://github.com/paurkedal/ocaml-caqti/issues"
 depends: [
   "alcotest" {with-test & >= "1.5.0"}
   "ocaml"
-  "caqti" {>= "1.8.0" & < "1.9.0~"}
+  "caqti" {>= "1.9.0" & < "1.10.0~"}
   "cmdliner" {with-test & >= "1.1.0"}
   "dune" {>= "2.0"}
   "odoc" {with-doc}
diff --git a/caqti-dynload.opam b/caqti-dynload.opam
index ff19f75a..ebacb8ff 100644
--- a/caqti-dynload.opam
+++ b/caqti-dynload.opam
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ homepage: "https://github.com/paurkedal/ocaml-caqti/"
 doc: "https://paurkedal.github.io/ocaml-caqti/index.html"
 bug-reports: "https://github.com/paurkedal/ocaml-caqti/issues"
 depends: [
-  "caqti" {>= "1.3.0" & < "1.9.0~"}
+  "caqti" {>= "1.3.0" & < "1.10.0~"}
   "caqti-driver-sqlite3" {with-test & >= "1.0.0" & < "2.0.0~"}
   "cmdliner" {with-test & >= "1.1.0"}
   "dune" {>= "2.0"}
diff --git a/caqti-lwt.opam b/caqti-lwt.opam
index 9df9b09e..cf999ea3 100644
--- a/caqti-lwt.opam
+++ b/caqti-lwt.opam
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ bug-reports: "https://github.com/paurkedal/ocaml-caqti/issues"
 depends: [
   "alcotest" {with-test & >= "1.5.0"}
   "alcotest-lwt" {with-test & >= "1.5.0"}
-  "caqti" {>= "1.8.0" & < "1.9.0~"}
+  "caqti" {>= "1.9.0" & < "1.10.0~"}
   "caqti-dynload" {with-test & >= "1.0.0" & < "2.0.0~"}
   "caqti-driver-sqlite3" {with-test & >= "1.0.0" & < "2.0.0~"}
   "cmdliner" {with-test & >= "1.1.0"}