diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5c4341fc..12214cbc 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 i3-wm (4.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release.
+  * Bump standards-version to 3.9.5 (no changes necessary)
 
  -- Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:15:29 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 97b11a5e..b36d5db4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~),
                libcairo2-dev,
                libpango1.0-dev,
                libpod-simple-perl
-Standards-Version: 3.9.4
+Standards-Version: 3.9.5
 Homepage: http://i3wm.org/
 
 Package: i3