diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 710c5748..cf87b87f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 # Changelog
 
-## FUTURE - TBD
+## 1.9.0 - 2022-02-01
 
 * Fix connection cache reuse for some DFS referral requests
+* Add `smbclient.path` to the `smbclient` import allowing `import smbclient; smbclient.path.func()`
 
 
 ## 1.8.3 - 2021-11-19
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3d8b6009..13b3cc57 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def abs_path(rel_path):
 
 setup(
     name='smbprotocol',
-    version='1.8.3',
+    version='1.9.0',
     packages=['smbclient', 'smbprotocol'],
     install_requires=[
         'cryptography>=2.0',
diff --git a/smbclient/__init__.py b/smbclient/__init__.py
index 39470557..fc0448e9 100644
--- a/smbclient/__init__.py
+++ b/smbclient/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # MIT License (see LICENSE or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
 
 import logging
+import smbclient.path
 
 from smbclient._pool import (
     ClientConfig,
@@ -51,12 +52,5 @@
     XATTR_REPLACE,
 )
 
-try:
-    from logging import NullHandler
-except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
-    class NullHandler(logging.Handler):
-        def emit(self, record):
-            pass
-
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-logger.addHandler(NullHandler())
+logger.addHandler(logging.NullHandler())