diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
index fd6f1796875..42163d96109 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -89,8 +89,8 @@ contributors:
 - Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
 - Matus Valo <matusvalo@users.noreply.github.com>
 - Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@logilab.fr>
-- David Shea <dshea@redhat.com>: invalid sequence and slice index
 - Mark Byrne <31762852+mbyrnepr2@users.noreply.github.com>
+- David Shea <dshea@redhat.com>: invalid sequence and slice index
 - Derek Gustafson <degustaf@gmail.com>
 - Cezar Elnazli <cezar.elnazli2@gmail.com>: deprecated-method
 - Nicolas Chauvat <nicolas.chauvat@logilab.fr>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a49bb9e300f..19184aca2ba 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Release date: TBA
 
 What's New in Pylint 2.13.9?
 ============================
-Release date: TBA
+Release date: 2022-05-09
 
 
 * Respect ignore configuration options with ``--recursive=y``.
diff --git a/pylint/__pkginfo__.py b/pylint/__pkginfo__.py
index 9ac08af5a0c..91585ad9e14 100644
--- a/pylint/__pkginfo__.py
+++ b/pylint/__pkginfo__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 from typing import Tuple
 
-__version__ = "2.13.8"
+__version__ = "2.13.9"
 
 
 def get_numversion_from_version(v: str) -> Tuple:
diff --git a/pylint/checkers/utils.py b/pylint/checkers/utils.py
index 9cba6e05798..5f00734e9b7 100644
--- a/pylint/checkers/utils.py
+++ b/pylint/checkers/utils.py
@@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ def uninferable_final_decorators(
     """
     decorators = []
     for decorator in getattr(node, "nodes", []):
-        import_nodes: tuple[nodes.Import | nodes.ImportFrom] | None = None
+        import_nodes = None
 
         # Get the `Import` node. The decorator is of the form: @module.name
         if isinstance(decorator, nodes.Attribute):
diff --git a/pylint/lint/expand_modules.py b/pylint/lint/expand_modules.py
index 07b92895a3c..302eea9fb3a 100644
--- a/pylint/lint/expand_modules.py
+++ b/pylint/lint/expand_modules.py
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ def _is_in_ignore_list_re(element: str, ignore_list_re: List[Pattern]) -> bool:
 
 def _is_ignored_file(
     element: str,
-    ignore_list: list[str],
-    ignore_list_re: list[Pattern[str]],
-    ignore_list_paths_re: list[Pattern[str]],
+    ignore_list,
+    ignore_list_re,
+    ignore_list_paths_re,
 ) -> bool:
     basename = os.path.basename(element)
     return (
diff --git a/tbump.toml b/tbump.toml
index 0bc188dd329..f9d6a7e5665 100644
--- a/tbump.toml
+++ b/tbump.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 github_url = "https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint"
 
 [version]
-current = "2.13.8"
+current = "2.13.9"
 regex = '''
 ^(?P<major>0|[1-9]\d*)
 \.