diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 8642d14..fff33b2 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -39,3 +39,4 @@ Paul Milham (https://github.com/domrein)
 Frankie O'Rourke (https://github.com/psfrankie)
 Cody Mello (https://github.com/melloc)
 Todd Whiteman (https://github.com/twhiteman)
+Zach Bjornson (https://github.com/zbjornson)
diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 9bb11c9..7e251c8 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -7,9 +7,18 @@ Known issues:
 
 ## not yet released
 
+(nothing yet)
+
+
+## 1.8.9
+
+- [pull #409, issue #246] Revert a change added to the `bunyan` CLI version
+  1.0.1 where `SIGINT` was ignored, such that Ctrl+C could not be used to
+  terminate bunyan. (By @zbjornson and @davepacheco.)
 - [pull #469] Fix a strict mode (`"use strict;"`) error in some versions of
   Safari.
 
+
 ## 1.8.8
 
 - Fix breakage due to a silly last minute "fix 'make check'".
diff --git a/bin/bunyan b/bin/bunyan
index eb77913..1ff7c12 100755
--- a/bin/bunyan
+++ b/bin/bunyan
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * vim: expandtab:ts=4:sw=4
  */
 
-var VERSION = '1.8.8';
+var VERSION = '1.8.9';
 
 var p = console.log;
 var util = require('util');
diff --git a/lib/bunyan.js b/lib/bunyan.js
index 1200a5d..1713bb4 100644
--- a/lib/bunyan.js
+++ b/lib/bunyan.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * vim: expandtab:ts=4:sw=4
  */
 
-var VERSION = '1.8.8';
+var VERSION = '1.8.9';
 
 /*
  * Bunyan log format version. This becomes the 'v' field on all log records.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d85490e..81813e2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "bunyan",
-  "version": "1.8.8",
+  "version": "1.8.9",
   "description": "a JSON logging library for node.js services",
   "author": "Trent Mick <trentm@gmail.com> (http://trentm.com)",
   "main": "./lib/bunyan.js",