diff --git a/INSTALL.rst b/INSTALL.rst
index 560677e4..99111e89 100644
--- a/INSTALL.rst
+++ b/INSTALL.rst
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ To download the python-rtmidi source distribution archive for the current
 version, extract and install it, use the following commands::
 
     $ pip download python-rtmidi
-    $ tar -xzf python-rtmidi-1.4.8.tar.gz
-    $ cd python-rtmidi-1.4.8
+    $ tar -xzf python-rtmidi-1.4.9.tar.gz
+    $ cd python-rtmidi-1.4.9
     $ python setup.py install
 
 On Linux or macOS / OS X, if you want to install python-rtmidi into the
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ platform-specific hints below.
 If you want to change the Cython source file ``_rtmidi.pyx`` or want to
 recompile ``_rtmidi.cpp`` with a newer Cython version, you'll need to install
 Cython >= 0.28. The ``_rtmidi.cpp`` file in the current source distribution
-(version 1.4.8) is tagged with::
+(version 1.4.9) is tagged with::
 
     /* Generated by Cython 0.29.23 */
 
diff --git a/rtmidi/version.py b/rtmidi/version.py
index 0e921568..d3641e44 100644
--- a/rtmidi/version.py
+++ b/rtmidi/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version = '1.4.8'
+version = '1.4.9'