diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT b/ANNOUNCEMENT
index 5dfc8f4d1..79f83e34f 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCEMENT
+++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Announcement of ECL v0.9j-p1
-============================
+Announcement of ECL v0.9l
+=========================
 
 ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp. The ECL project aims to produce
 an implementation of the Common-Lisp language which complies to the ANSI
@@ -24,13 +24,15 @@ find source code releases, a CVS tree and some useful documentation.
 Notes for this release
 ======================
 
-This is mostly a bugfix release, but it includes several interesting
-new features, such as the SERVE-EVENT package, ported from SBCL by
-Steve Smith, finalization of lisp objects and installation of ECL
-on standard unix paths
+This release is relevant for various reasons. First of all, several
+important bugs have been fixed which now allow Maxima to be built
+using ECL. Second, there have been serious improvements in performance
+coming mainly from a better garbage collector scheme (incremental
+with generations) and a threaded interpreter. In some cases this results
+in a factor 2 reduction in execution speed.
 
 
-Changes since 0.9i
+Changes since 0.9j
 ==================
 
 See file src/CHANGELOG or browse it online
diff --git a/src/CHANGELOG b/src/CHANGELOG
index 35be7fa80..0d7712125 100644
--- a/src/CHANGELOG
+++ b/src/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-ECL 0.9k:
+ECL 0.9l:
 =========
 
 * Implementation changes:
diff --git a/src/configure b/src/configure
index 590b10bde..90a0961f4 100755
--- a/src/configure
+++ b/src/configure
@@ -573,8 +573,8 @@ SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}
 # Identity of this package.
 PACKAGE_NAME='ecl'
 PACKAGE_TARNAME='ecl'
-PACKAGE_VERSION='0.9k'
-PACKAGE_STRING='ecl 0.9k'
+PACKAGE_VERSION='0.9l'
+PACKAGE_STRING='ecl 0.9l'
 PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
 
 ac_unique_file="bare.lsp.in"
@@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ if test "$ac_init_help" = "long"; then
   # Omit some internal or obsolete options to make the list less imposing.
   # This message is too long to be a string in the A/UX 3.1 sh.
   cat <<_ACEOF
-\`configure' configures ecl 0.9k to adapt to many kinds of systems.
+\`configure' configures ecl 0.9l to adapt to many kinds of systems.
 
 Usage: $0 [OPTION]... [VAR=VALUE]...
 
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$ac_init_help"; then
   case $ac_init_help in
-     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of ecl 0.9k:";;
+     short | recursive ) echo "Configuration of ecl 0.9l:";;
    esac
   cat <<\_ACEOF
 
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ fi
 test -n "$ac_init_help" && exit $ac_status
 if $ac_init_version; then
   cat <<\_ACEOF
-ecl configure 0.9k
+ecl configure 0.9l
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61
 
 Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
@@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ cat >config.log <<_ACEOF
 This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
 running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
 
-It was created by ecl $as_me 0.9k, which was
+It was created by ecl $as_me 0.9l, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.  Invocation command line was
 
   $ $0 $@
@@ -11725,7 +11725,7 @@ exec 6>&1
 # report actual input values of CONFIG_FILES etc. instead of their
 # values after options handling.
 ac_log="
-This file was extended by ecl $as_me 0.9k, which was
+This file was extended by ecl $as_me 0.9l, which was
 generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.  Invocation command line was
 
   CONFIG_FILES    = $CONFIG_FILES
@@ -11774,7 +11774,7 @@ Report bugs to <bug-autoconf@gnu.org>."
 _ACEOF
 cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF
 ac_cs_version="\\
-ecl config.status 0.9k
+ecl config.status 0.9l
 configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61,
   with options \\"`echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/^ //; s/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`\\"
 
diff --git a/src/configure.in b/src/configure.in
index d1b363a97..6330c7928 100644
--- a/src/configure.in
+++ b/src/configure.in
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dnl  AUTOCONF configuration for ECL
 dnl  Giuseppe Attardi 25.1.1994
 dnl
 
-AC_INIT([ecl],[0.9k],[])
+AC_INIT([ecl],[0.9l],[])
 AC_REVISION([$Revision$])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([bare.lsp.in])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([${srcdir}/gmp])