diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index e475af9..8878fc9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -184,3 +184,14 @@
 * Allow email subjects to be customised through Synapse's configuration. (#7846)
 * Add the ability to re-activate an account from the admin API. (#7847, #7908)
 * Support oEmbed for media previews. (#7920)
+
+[1.9.0]
+* Update Synapse to 1.19.0
+* [Full changelog](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.19.0)
+* Add option to allow server admins to join rooms which fail complexity checks. Contributed by @lugino-emeritus. (#7902)
+* Add an option to purge room or not with delete room admin endpoint (POST /_synapse/admin/v1/rooms/<room_id>/delete). Contributed by @dklimpel. (#7964)
+* Add rate limiting to users joining rooms. (#8008)
+* Add a /health endpoint to every configured HTTP listener that can be used as a health check endpoint by load balancers. (#8048)
+* Allow login to be blocked based on the values of SAML attributes. (#8052)
+* Allow guest access to the GET /_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{room_id}/members endpoint, according to MSC2689. Contributed by Awesome Technologies Innovationslabor GmbH. (#7314)
+
diff --git a/CloudronManifest.json b/CloudronManifest.json
index 5af2536..0c3cd26 100644
--- a/CloudronManifest.json
+++ b/CloudronManifest.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   "description": "file://DESCRIPTION.md",
   "changelog": "file://CHANGELOG",
   "tagline": "Secure & decentralized communication",
-  "version": "1.8.0",
+  "version": "1.9.0",
   "healthCheckPath": "/",
   "httpPort": 8008,
   "memoryLimit": 536870912,
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION.md b/DESCRIPTION.md
index 1e6f5d6..1275384 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION.md
+++ b/DESCRIPTION.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This app packages Synapse <upstream>1.18.0</upstream>.
+This app packages Synapse <upstream>1.19.0</upstream>.
 
 **This package only provides the Matrix backend. A variety of clients are available
 [here](https://matrix.org/clients/). Riot is a popular web frontend for Matrix and