diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5c125ff732..e1e1187c51 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -309,3 +309,8 @@
 
 - Add support for [picologging](https://github.com/microsoft/picologging)
 - Update response headers, handling of cookies and handling of responses
+
+[1.9.1]
+
+- CSRF Middleware and config, @seladb
+- Normalize BackgroundTask and BackgroundTasks into `starlite.datastructures`
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 800e8d1956..fc90747a57 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "starlite"
-version = "1.9.0"
+version = "1.9.1"
 description = "Light-weight and flexible ASGI API Framework"
 authors = ["Na'aman Hirschfeld <nhirschfeld@gmail.com>"]
 maintainers = ["Na'aman Hirschfeld <nhirschfeld@gmail.com>", "Peter Schutt <peter.github@proton.me>", "Cody Fincher <cody.fincher@gmail.com>"]