diff --git a/srcpkgs/variety/template b/srcpkgs/variety/template
index df2ef21744d..c5c8fe0d109 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/variety/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/variety/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'variety'
 pkgname=variety
-version=0.8.5
-revision=2
+version=0.8.9
+revision=1
 build_style=python3-module
 pycompile_dirs="usr/share/variety/plugins"
 hostmakedepends="python3-distutils-extra intltool"
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ depends="ImageMagick gtk+3 libgexiv2 libnotify python3-BeautifulSoup4
  python3-Pillow python3-configobj python3-curl python3-dbus python3-gobject
  python3-httplib2 python3-lxml python3-requests"
 short_desc="Changes the wallpaper on a regular interval"
-maintainer="Diogo Leal <diogo@diogoleal.com>"
+maintainer="Ishaan Bhimwal <ishaanbhimwal@protonmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3.0-only"
 homepage="https://peterlevi.com/variety/"
 changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/varietywalls/variety/master/data/ui/changes.txt"
 distfiles="https://github.com/varietywalls/variety/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=2298af592cdd5cc0c183582f74f39af74b07499074ea164a3a327d55c9338248
+checksum=bcb5d41e0903734c0ac1015b0e599bf99eb1975bcbdcbce623eb42d230532595