diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 090ac9e188422..0e6427997667a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
 project(paddle CXX C)
 set(PADDLE_MAJOR_VERSION 0)
 set(PADDLE_MINOR_VERSION 9)
-set(PADDLE_PATCH_VERSION 0a0)
+set(PADDLE_PATCH_VERSION 0)
 set(PADDLE_VERSION ${PADDLE_MAJOR_VERSION}.${PADDLE_MINOR_VERSION}.${PADDLE_PATCH_VERSION})
 
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..b2684f5f5ded1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+# Release v0.9.0
+
+## New Features:
+
+* Add some layers to Paddle
+  * bilinear interpolation layer.
+  * spatial pyramid-pool layer.
+  * de-convolution layer.
+  * maxout layer.
+* Support rectangle padding, stride, window and input for Pooling Operation.
+* Add —job=time in trainer, which can be used to print time info without compiler option -WITH_TIMER=ON.
+* Support Mac OS X Sierra by source code.
+* Expose cost_weight/nce_layer in `trainer_config_helpers`
+* Add FAQ, concepts, h-rnn docs.
+* Add Bidi-LSTM and DB-LSTM to quick start demo @alvations
+* Add usage track scripts.
+
+## Improvements
+
+* Add travis-ci for macos. Enable swig unittest in travis. Skip travis-ci when only docs are changed.
+* Add code coverage tools.
+* Refine convolution layer to speedup and reduce GPU memory.
+* Speed up PyDataProvider2
+* Add ubuntu deb package build scripts.
+* Make Paddle use git-flow branching model.
+* PServer support no parameter blocks.
+
+## Bug Fixes
+
+* add zlib link to py_paddle
+* add input sparse data check for sparse layer at runtime
+* Bug fix for sparse matrix multiplication
+* Fix floating-point overflow problem of tanh
+* Fix some nvcc compile options
+* Fix a bug in yield dictionary in DataProvider
+* Fix SRL hang when exit.
+
+# Release v0.8.0beta.1
+New features:
+
+* Mac OSX is supported by source code. #138
+   * Both GPU and CPU versions of PaddlePaddle are supported.
+
+* Support CUDA 8.0
+
+* Enhance `PyDataProvider2`
+   * Add dictionary yield format. `PyDataProvider2` can yield a dictionary with key is data_layer's name, value is features.
+   * Add `min_pool_size` to control memory pool in provider.
+
+* Add `deb` install package & docker image for no_avx machines.
+   * Especially for cloud computing and virtual machines
+
+* Automatically disable `avx` instructions in cmake when machine's CPU don't support `avx` instructions.
+
+* Add Parallel NN api in trainer_config_helpers.
+
+* Add `travis ci` for Github
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+* Several bugs in trainer_config_helpers. Also complete the unittest for trainer_config_helpers
+* Check if PaddlePaddle is installed when unittest.
+* Fix bugs in GTX series GPU
+* Fix bug in MultinomialSampler
+
+Also more documentation was written since last release.
+
+# Release v0.8.0beta.0
+
+PaddlePaddle v0.8.0beta.0 release. The install package is not stable yet and it's a pre-release version.
diff --git a/paddle/scripts/docker/Dockerfile.m4 b/paddle/scripts/docker/Dockerfile.m4
index e14493ed9e842..761aa975d6936 100644
--- a/paddle/scripts/docker/Dockerfile.m4
+++ b/paddle/scripts/docker/Dockerfile.m4
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 FROM PADDLE_BASE_IMAGE
 MAINTAINER PaddlePaddle Dev Team <paddle-dev@baidu.com>
 COPY build.sh /root/
-ENV GIT_CHECKOUT=v0.9.0a0
+ENV GIT_CHECKOUT=v0.9.0
 ENV WITH_GPU=PADDLE_WITH_GPU
 ENV IS_DEVEL=PADDLE_IS_DEVEL
 ENV WITH_DEMO=PADDLE_WITH_DEMO