diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 11acc7b0e3419250290d19059fa002aaa961ed01..4ec72d78305b4a96ecb51c25a658e64773fcb0c2 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign 1.2
 lib_LTLIBRARIES = liboop-adns.la liboop-glib.la liboop-tcl.la liboop-www.la liboop-rl.la liboop.la
 INCLUDES = $(GLIB_INCLUDES) $(TCL_INCLUDES) $(WWW_INCLUDES)
 
-# versions updated as of 0.7
-liboop_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 3:0:0 # version:revision:age
+# versions updated as of 0.8
+liboop_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 4:0:0 # version:revision:age
 liboop_la_SOURCES = sys.c select.c signal.c alloc.c read.c read-fd.c read-mem.c
 
 liboop_adns_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 2:0:0
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index eddc43f6a72513d4bbd60ff73944635ca1674ae3..5fec67348f5788e6e01ce22b2fc63fac1fd08375 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_INIT(INSTALL)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(liboop,0.8)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(liboop,0.9)
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 
 dnl Use libtool for shared libraries