diff --git a/R-package/DESCRIPTION b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
index f6172c5..e907736 100644
--- a/R-package/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/R-package/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: ivis
 Title: Artificial neural network-driven visualization of high-dimensional data using triplets. 
-Version: 2.0.8
+Version: 2.0.9
 Authors@R: c(person("Benjamin", "Szubert", email = "bszubert@beringresearch.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
          person("Ignat", "Drozdov", email = "idrozdov@beringresearch.com", role = c("aut")),
          person("Kevin", "Rue-Albrecht", role = "ctb", email = "kevin.rue-albrecht@kennedy.ox.ac.uk", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3899-3872")))
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0aab8b7..9257b0c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -70,4 +70,4 @@ model = Ivis(embedding_dims=2, k=15)
 embeddings = model.fit_transform(X_scaled)
 ```
 
-Copyright 2021 Bering Limited
+Copyright 2022 Bering Limited
diff --git a/ivis/version.py b/ivis/version.py
index d335f92..39468c1 100644
--- a/ivis/version.py
+++ b/ivis/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-VERSION = '2.0.8'
+VERSION = '2.0.9'