diff --git a/gap-io.changes b/gap-io.changes
index e9f2ea8..ce83af6 100644
--- a/gap-io.changes
+++ b/gap-io.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep  5 13:46:56 UTC 2024 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Update to release 4.9
+  * Use IsKernelExtensionAvailable and LoadKernelExtension
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jul 31 04:30:56 UTC 2024 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/gap-io.spec b/gap-io.spec
index 212fb96..455df55 100644
--- a/gap-io.spec
+++ b/gap-io.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           gap-io
-Version:        4.8.3
+Version:        4.9.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        GAP: Bindings for low level C library IO
 License:        GPL-3.0-or-later
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ URL:            https://gap-packages.github.io/io/
 #Git-Clone:     https://github.com/gap-packages/io
 Source:       	https://github.com/gap-packages/io/releases/download/v%version/io-%version.tar.bz2
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
-BuildRequires:  gap-devel >= 4.11
+BuildRequires:  gap-devel >= 4.12
 BuildRequires:  gap-rpm-devel
 BuildRequires:  gmp-devel
-Requires:       gap-core >= 4.11
+Requires:       gap-core >= 4.12
 
 %description
 The IO package provides bindings for GAP to the lower levels of
diff --git a/io-4.8.3.tar.bz2 b/io-4.8.3.tar.bz2
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index 2e62a57..0000000
--- a/io-4.8.3.tar.bz2
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
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-oid sha256:44c98564c7ff74e6877540cf82bf7b718bfdad0ab03061c43e533eff1b9ec5c8
-size 604847
diff --git a/io-4.9.0.tar.bz2 b/io-4.9.0.tar.bz2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..68f1118
--- /dev/null
+++ b/io-4.9.0.tar.bz2
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:65ff954a5100e9094e2b7ca2314d9ba1f9331cc4fdf1fdb5bb2b8bab7938396f
+size 604546