diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e74edd327..d7723db3f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # configure.ac
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2006-2015 wolfSSL Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2016 wolfSSL Inc.
 #
 # This file is part of wolfSSL. (formerly known as CyaSSL)
 #
 #
 
-AC_INIT([wolfssl],[3.9.8],[https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfssl/issues],[wolfssl],[http://www.wolfssl.com])
+AC_INIT([wolfssl],[3.9.9],[https://github.com/wolfssl/wolfssl/issues],[wolfssl],[http://www.wolfssl.com])
 
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.in])dnl Keep filename to 8.3 for MS-DOS.
 
 #shared library versioning
-WOLFSSL_LIBRARY_VERSION=7:0:4
+WOLFSSL_LIBRARY_VERSION=8:0:5
 #                       | | |
 #                +------+ | +---+
 #                |        |     |
diff --git a/support/wolfssl.pc b/support/wolfssl.pc
index 0e9d02592..6a0b099e8 100644
--- a/support/wolfssl.pc
+++ b/support/wolfssl.pc
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ includedir=${prefix}/include
 
 Name: wolfssl
 Description: wolfssl C library.
-Version: 3.9.8
+Version: 3.9.9
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lwolfssl
 Cflags: -I${includedir}
diff --git a/wolfssl/version.h b/wolfssl/version.h
index c044ee57a..c67bc7422 100644
--- a/wolfssl/version.h
+++ b/wolfssl/version.h
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
-#define LIBWOLFSSL_VERSION_STRING "3.9.8"
-#define LIBWOLFSSL_VERSION_HEX 0x03009008
+#define LIBWOLFSSL_VERSION_STRING "3.9.9"
+#define LIBWOLFSSL_VERSION_HEX 0x03009009
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }