diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ad5d71bdd..0f62c23fa 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 /scratch.clj
 /target
 /wiki
+/web
 TAGS
 test_projects/*/target
 pom.xml
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index e8c4dc5eb..450e6aa78 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -8,14 +8,10 @@ Discussion occurs primarily in the
 [#leiningen channel on Freenode](irc://chat.freenode.net#leiningen)
 
 Please report issues on the
-[GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues)
-or the mailing list. Sending bug reports to personal email addresses
-is inappropriate. Simpler issues appropriate for first-time
-contributors looking to help out are tagged "newbie".
+[GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues).
 
 Code submissions should
-be [sent](https://man.sr.ht/git.sr.ht/send-email.md) with `git
-send-email` or as GitHub pull requests. Please use topic branches when
+be sent as GitHub pull requests. Please use topic branches when
 sending pull requests rather than committing directly to master in
 order to minimize unnecessary merge commit clutter. Direct pull
 requests towards the master branch, not the stable branch.
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 842cec3dd..85d85bda1 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 # Leiningen News -- history of user-visible changes
 
-## 2.9.5
+## 2.9.5 / 2020-12-07
 
-* Update nREPL to 0.8. (Bozhidar Batsov)
-* Update commons-io t0 2.8.0. (Utkarsh Gupta)
+* Several dependency version bumps. (Bozhidar Batsov, Utkarsh Gupta, Chris Thunes)
 
 ## 2.9.4 / 2020-07-08
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6ca473b6f..6b6d65bd3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ explains how to write plugins.
 
 ## License
 
-Source Copyright © 2009-2018 Phil Hagelberg, Alex Osborne, Dan Larkin, and
+Source Copyright © 2009-2020 Phil Hagelberg, Alex Osborne, Dan Larkin, and
 [contributors](https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/contributors).
 Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure
 uses. See the file COPYING.
diff --git a/leiningen-core/pom.xml b/leiningen-core/pom.xml
index 868bc7ba8..68682adb0 100644
--- a/leiningen-core/pom.xml
+++ b/leiningen-core/pom.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <groupId>leiningen-core</groupId>
   <artifactId>leiningen-core</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>2.9.4</version>
+  <version>2.9.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <name>leiningen-core</name>
   <description>Library for core functionality of Leiningen.</description>
   <url>https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen</url>
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@
     </license>
   </licenses>
   <scm>
-    <tag>d6967e496c51d556b95bff00283e64552abbca69
-</tag>
-    <url/>
+    <tag>c46cd666356fb7c2abf19e8f3b59c62544c419fc</tag>
   </scm>
   <build>
     <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
@@ -48,7 +46,7 @@
     </repository>
     <repository>
       <id>clojars</id>
-      <url>https://clojars.org/repo/</url>
+      <url>https://repo.clojars.org/</url>
       <snapshots>
         <enabled>true</enabled>
       </snapshots>
@@ -72,8 +70,8 @@
       <version>0.3.0</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
           <artifactId>clojure</artifactId>
+          <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
@@ -93,8 +91,8 @@
       <version>1.2.0</version>
       <exclusions>
         <exclusion>
-          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
           <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>