diff --git a/packages/techdocs-container/techdocs-core/README.md b/packages/techdocs-container/techdocs-core/README.md
index 49b9fce4e4..7f34722e81 100644
--- a/packages/techdocs-container/techdocs-core/README.md
+++ b/packages/techdocs-container/techdocs-core/README.md
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ Extensions:
 
 ## Changelog
 
+### 0.0.9
+
+- Change development status to 3 - Alpha
+
 ### 0.0.8
 
 - Superfences and Codehilite doesn't work very well together (squidfunk/mkdocs-material#1604) so therefore the codehilite extension is replaced by pymdownx.highlight
diff --git a/packages/techdocs-container/techdocs-core/setup.py b/packages/techdocs-container/techdocs-core/setup.py
index 00e49dd366..4385bc2e38 100644
--- a/packages/techdocs-container/techdocs-core/setup.py
+++ b/packages/techdocs-container/techdocs-core/setup.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ with open(path.join(this_dir, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as file:
 
 setup(
     name="mkdocs-techdocs-core",
-    version="0.0.8",
+    version="0.0.9",
     description="A Mkdocs package that contains TechDocs defaults",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ setup(
         "pymdown-extensions==7.1",
     ],
     classifiers=[
-        "Development Status :: 1 - Planning",
+        "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
         "Intended Audience :: Developers",
         "Intended Audience :: Information Technology",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",