diff --git a/.update/version b/.update/version
index 0f107f5c7b..2dd1677285 100644
--- a/.update/version
+++ b/.update/version
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # shellcheck disable=SC2034
 # Available DietPi version
 G_REMOTE_VERSION_CORE=9
-G_REMOTE_VERSION_SUB=9
-G_REMOTE_VERSION_RC=0
+G_REMOTE_VERSION_SUB=10
+G_REMOTE_VERSION_RC=-1
 # Minimum DietPi version to allow update
 G_MIN_VERSION_CORE=7
 G_MIN_VERSION_SUB=0
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 4e5da62e14..9e894ae794 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+v9.10
+(2025-01-25)
+
+New images:
+
+Enhancements:
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+As always, many smaller code performance and stability improvements, visual and spelling fixes have been done, too much to list all of them here. Check out all code changes of this release on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/pull/ADDME
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 v9.9
 (2024-11-23)
 
diff --git a/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals b/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
index a77d84b5fa..eac4ba6d49 100644
--- a/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
+++ b/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@
 	[[ -f '/boot/dietpi/.version' ]] && . /boot/dietpi/.version
 	# - Assign defaults/code version as fallback
 	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
-	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=9
-	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=0
+	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=10
+	[[ $G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC ]] || G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=-1
 	[[ $G_GITBRANCH ]] || G_GITBRANCH='master'
 	[[ $G_GITOWNER ]] || G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'
 	# - Save current version and Git branch