diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 07bdd0e..08cafd1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -340,6 +340,9 @@ Even more queries can be found [here](https://colab.research.google.com/github/R
 
 # Latest updates
 
+## Version 2.1.9
+- Fixed a bug in the inferred conversion to DataFrames of output involving arrays of objects.
+
 ## Version 2.1.8
 - The order of the columns in output DataFrames were occasionally reshuffled. This new version keeps the column order more stable.
 - Further improvements supporting built-in function and improved XML/XQuery 3.1 support.
@@ -455,4 +458,3 @@ Even more queries can be found [here](https://colab.research.google.com/github/R
 - Ability to write back a sequence of items to local disk, HDFS, S3... in various formats (JSON, CSV, Parquet...).
 - Automatically declare external variables bound as DataFrames to improve userfriendliness.
 - Simplified the function names to make them more intuitive (json(), items(), df(), rdd(), etc).
-
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a5692b3..13497eb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "jsoniq"
-version = "2.1.8"
+version = "2.1.9"
 description = "Python edition of RumbleDB, a JSONiq engine"
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [
diff --git a/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.8.jar b/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.8.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a15a98..0000000
--- a/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.8.jar
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:1ef6213de358698daf6bd5ab43b7747ff74cda4c7d30226b1f3886f813c77f01
-size 79729772
diff --git a/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.9.jar b/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.9.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a5009bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/jsoniq/jars/rumbledb-2.1.9.jar
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:cad5d2bbc20972bfe7536dad7624cb6f1d7df7efd995ab181173b199b5e3ad53
+size 79750237
diff --git a/src/jsoniq/session.py b/src/jsoniq/session.py
index 163c9dd..dcacaad 100644
--- a/src/jsoniq/session.py
+++ b/src/jsoniq/session.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import pandas as pd
 from importlib.resources import files, as_file
 
-with as_file(files("jsoniq.jars").joinpath("rumbledb-2.1.8.jar")) as jar_path:
+with as_file(files("jsoniq.jars").joinpath("rumbledb-2.1.9.jar")) as jar_path:
     if (os.name == 'nt'):
         jar_path_str = str(jar_path)
     else: