diff --git a/CHANGES.markdown b/CHANGES.markdown
--- a/CHANGES.markdown
+++ b/CHANGES.markdown
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-## Changes in next
+## Changes in 2.9.1
+  - Recover unicode from `ExpectedButGot`
+  - Preserve unicode in `To rerun use: --match ...` output
+
+## Changes in 2.9.0
   - Add ASCII fallbacks to "checks" formatter (fixes #512)
   - Use `checks` formatter by default (to restore the old behavior use
     `--format specdoc`)
diff --git a/hspec.cabal b/hspec.cabal
--- a/hspec.cabal
+++ b/hspec.cabal
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 cabal-version: 1.12
 
--- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.34.4.
+-- This file has been generated from package.yaml by hpack version 0.34.5.
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 
 name:             hspec
-version:          2.9.0
+version:          2.9.1
 license:          MIT
 license-file:     LICENSE
 copyright:        (c) 2011-2021 Simon Hengel,
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
   build-depends:
       QuickCheck >=2.12
     , base ==4.*
-    , hspec-core ==2.9.0
-    , hspec-discover ==2.9.0
+    , hspec-core ==2.9.1
+    , hspec-discover ==2.9.1
     , hspec-expectations ==0.8.2.*
   exposed-modules:
       Test.Hspec
diff --git a/version.yaml b/version.yaml
--- a/version.yaml
+++ b/version.yaml
@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@
-&version 2.9.0
+&version 2.9.1