diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index 194e940aff..236760cc47 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,39 @@ Hibernate 6 Changelog
 
 Note: Please refer to JIRA to learn more about each issue.
 
+Changes in 6.0.0.Alpha9 (August 4, 2021)
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/31944
+
+** Bug
+    * [HHH-14719] - Hibernate has a dependency on apache-derby:10.11.1.1 that is vulnerable to CVE-2015-1832 with a CVSS of 9.1 and CVE-2018-1313 with a CVSS of 5.3
+    * [HHH-14715 - Hibernate has a dependency to maven-core:3.0.5 that is vulnerable to CVE-2021-26291 with a CVSS of 9.1]
+    * [HHH-14704] - Union \+ OneToOne is broken in Hibernate 6
+
+** Improvement
+    * [HHH-14745] - Add FunctionContributor contract
+    * [HHH-14678] - Drop ResultSetWrapper and friends
+    * [HHH-14617] - Remove `QueryLiteralRendering` and `LiteralHandlingMode` from v6 codebase
+    * [HHH-14512] - Add Jenkinsfile for ORM
+    * [HHH-2407] - rework HQL translator
+    * [HHH-1615] - GROUP BY entity does not work
+
+** New Feature
+    * [HHH-14693] - Introduce hibernate-community-dialects module
+    * [HHH-10668] - Add SQL dialect for SQLite 3
+
+** Sub-task
+    * [HHH-14718] - Drop deprecated generator implementations
+    * [HHH-14495] - Use table name, rather than entity name, as base for per-entity implicit sequence naming
+    * [HHH-3688] - Formalize new HQL normalize phase
+    * [HHH-3687] - Formalize new HQL parse phase
+
+** Task
+    * [HHH-14605] - Handling for BLOB, CLOB and NCLOB relative to JavaTypeDescriptor `#isString` and `#isBinary`
+
+
+
 Changes in 6.0.0.Alpha8 (May 18, 2021)
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/gradle/version.properties b/gradle/version.properties
index b0bf7e7db6..15c8016698 100644
--- a/gradle/version.properties
+++ b/gradle/version.properties
@@ -1 +1 @@
-hibernateVersion=6.0.0-SNAPSHOT
\ No newline at end of file
+hibernateVersion=6.0.0.Alpha9
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/release/manual-release-process.adoc b/release/manual-release-process.adoc
index cb68e4b086..e9fec5067a 100644
--- a/release/manual-release-process.adoc
+++ b/release/manual-release-process.adoc
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ Many release steps have been automated, but some still need to be done manually:
 1. Mark version released in Jira
 2. Bulk close all the version's Jira tickets
 3. Get changelog from Jira and add to `../changelog.txt`
-4. Change version (`ext.hibernateTargetVersion`) in `gradle/base-information.gradle` to the release version
+4. Change version in `gradle/version.properties` to the release version
 5. Commit - do not push, because pushing will cause CI to upload another staging repository
 6. Do the release - from the root-dir, `./gradlew release`.  This relies on Gradle's UP-TO-DATE checks, assuming you have verified the build already.  `./gradlew cleanAndRelease` can be used instead to trigger a full clean+build for the release
 7. Verify / trigger the sync to Central from BinTray happened.  This never seems to happen automatically so plan on triggering the sync manually.
 8. Create the release tag
-9. Change version in `gradle/base-information.gradle` to the next development version
+9. Change version in `gradle/version.properties` to the next development version
 10. Commit
 11. Push (both the branch and tag) upstream