From 2cc92696526b77017b35b2057e614366b04785ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:48:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Prepare release 4.9.0rc1

---
 CHANGELOG.md   | 6 +++---
 pyproject.toml | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 36c735d4..c5a8aebc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Release 4.9.0 (???)
+# Release 4.9.0rc1 (November 29, 2023)
 
 - Add support for PEP 705, adding `typing_extensions.ReadOnly`. Patch
   by Jelle Zijlstra.
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
   argument to the `msg` parameter. Patch by Alex Waygood.
 - `@deprecated` is now implemented as a class for better introspectability.
   Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
-- Exclude `__match_args__` from `Protocol` members,
-  this is a backport of https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/110683
+- Exclude `__match_args__` from `Protocol` members.
+  Backport of https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/110683 by Nikita Sobolev.
 - When creating a `typing_extensions.NamedTuple` class, ensure `__set_name__`
   is called on all objects that define `__set_name__` and exist in the values
   of the `NamedTuple` class's class dictionary. Patch by Alex Waygood,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b71e6d01..7570b039 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build-backend = "flit_core.buildapi"
 # Project metadata
 [project]
 name = "typing_extensions"
-version = "4.8.0"
+version = "4.9.0rc1"
 description = "Backported and Experimental Type Hints for Python 3.8+"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.8"