chore: bump version to 1.9.0

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CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [1.9.0] - 2026-05-07
+
+### Fixed
+- fix: preserve multi-turn history in Strands ConversationTurn (#454) (10da345)
+
+### Other Changes
+- fix(payments): skip connector integ tests that require CDP credentials (#462) (1086f94)
+- fix(payments): use RUNTIME_ROLE_ARN for CP integ tests (#461) (65df922)
+- ci: add payments group to integration test matrix (#460) (2be8a6a)
+- feat(payments): add AgentCore Payments module (#457) (a4d73c7)
+
 ## [1.8.0] - 2026-04-30
 
 ### Added

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "bedrock-agentcore"
-version = "1.8.0"
+version = "1.9.0"
 description = "An SDK for using Bedrock AgentCore"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"