diff --git a/ANNOUNCE.rst b/ANNOUNCE.rst
index 3a91960a..66d55680 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE.rst
+++ b/ANNOUNCE.rst
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 =============================
-Announcing python-blosc 1.9.1
+Announcing python-blosc 1.9.2
 =============================
 
 What is new?
 ============
 
-We disabled the attempt to include support for SSE2 and AVX2 on
-non-Intel platforms, allowing the build on such platforms (see #244).
-Thanks to Lehman Garrison.
+This is a maintenance release for better support recent version of Python
+(3.8 and 3.9).  Also, and due to the evolution of modern CPUs, the
+number of default threads has been raised to 8 (from 4).
+Finally, zero-copy decompression is now supported by allowing bytes-like
+input.  Thanks to Lehman Garrison.
 
 For more info, you can have a look at the release notes in:
 
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
index 47449851..3a1c196b 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
@@ -13,7 +13,20 @@
 Changes from 1.9.1 to 1.9.2
 ===========================
 
-#XXX version-specific blurb XXX#
+- Internal C-Blosc updated to 1.20.1.  This fixes
+  https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc/issues/229, and also brings
+  many new updates in internal codecs, providing interesting bumps
+  in performance in some cases.
+
+- Due to recent addition of more cores in new CPUs, the number of
+  internal threads to be used by default has been increased from 4 to 8.
+
+- Allow zero-copy decompression by allowing bytes-like input.  See PR:
+  https://github.com/Blosc/python-blosc/issues/229.  Thanks to Lehman
+  Garrison.
+
+- Fix DeprecationWarning due to invalid escape sequence and use
+  array.tobytes for Python 3.9.
 
 
 Changes from 1.9.0 to 1.9.1
@@ -202,7 +215,7 @@ Changes from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
     BLOSC_MAX_THREADS
     BLOSC_MAX_TYPESIZE
   However, these are considered deprecated and should be replaced by
-  libraries using python-blosc by the ones without the BLOSC_ prefix.
+  libraries using python-blosc by the ones without the `BLOSC_` prefix.
 
 
 Changes from 1.2.8 to 1.3.0
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index c88bea2d..8fdcf386 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.9.2-dev0
+1.9.2
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index 14ea2cff..015f8241 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '1.9'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.9.2.dev0'
+release = '1.9.2'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.