diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/shared-mime-info/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/shared-mime-info/package.py
index 824df65987a..15cc97a0e6d 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/shared-mime-info/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/shared-mime-info/package.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ class SharedMimeInfo(AutotoolsPackage):
     homepage = "https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/shared-mime-info"
     url      = "http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-1.8.tar.xz"
 
+    version('1.9', '45103889b91242850aa47f09325e798b')
     version('1.8', 'f6dcadce764605552fc956563efa058c')
 
     parallel = False