diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index d7e5cb6c..0b1b1275 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.6.0-alpha.8
+0.6.0-alpha.9
diff --git a/examples/ffmpeg_vad_streaming/package.json b/examples/ffmpeg_vad_streaming/package.json
index 7d8a9f75..5838a71a 100644
--- a/examples/ffmpeg_vad_streaming/package.json
+++ b/examples/ffmpeg_vad_streaming/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "argparse": "^1.0.10",
-    "deepspeech": "^0.6.0-alpha.8",
+    "deepspeech": "^0.6.0-alpha.9",
     "node-vad": "^1.1.1",
     "util": "^0.11.1"
   },
diff --git a/examples/mic_vad_streaming/requirements.txt b/examples/mic_vad_streaming/requirements.txt
index 15df620c..d31069be 100644
--- a/examples/mic_vad_streaming/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/mic_vad_streaming/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-deepspeech~=0.6.0a8
+deepspeech~=0.6.0a9
 pyaudio~=0.2.11
 webrtcvad~=2.0.10
 halo~=0.0.18
diff --git a/examples/nodejs_wav/package.json b/examples/nodejs_wav/package.json
index 477efad0..8fd5bcf1 100644
--- a/examples/nodejs_wav/package.json
+++ b/examples/nodejs_wav/package.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "argparse": "^1.0.10",
-    "deepspeech": "^0.6.0-alpha.8",
+    "deepspeech": "^0.6.0-alpha.9",
     "node-wav": "0.0.2",
     "sox-stream": "^2.0.3",
     "util": "^0.11.1"
diff --git a/examples/vad_transcriber/requirements.txt b/examples/vad_transcriber/requirements.txt
index 4ee06c21..ddd4b2a3 100644
--- a/examples/vad_transcriber/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/vad_transcriber/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-deepspeech~=0.6.0a8
+deepspeech~=0.6.0a9
 webrtcvad
 pyqt5