diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bd0c5a922a3..3bc975224c8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 This project follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) format for changes and adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## 1.25.9 - 2022-04-21
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **deps**: correct py36 marker for jmespath
 ## 1.25.8 - 2022-04-21
 
 ### Bug Fixes
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 894c66b592e..29239db20d0 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "aws_lambda_powertools"
-version = "1.25.8"
+version = "1.25.9"
 description = "A suite of utilities for AWS Lambda functions to ease adopting best practices such as tracing, structured logging, custom metrics, batching, idempotency, feature flags, and more."
 authors = ["Amazon Web Services"]
 include = ["aws_lambda_powertools/py.typed", "THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES"]
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ aws-xray-sdk = "^2.8.0"
 fastjsonschema = "^2.14.5"
 boto3 = "^1.18"
 jmespath = [
-  { version ="<=0.10.0", python = "^3.6" },
-  { version ="^1.0.0", python = "^3.7" }
+  { version = "<=0.10.0", python = "3.6" },
+  { version = "^1.0.0", python = "^3.7" }
 ]
 pydantic = {version = "^1.8.2", optional = true }
 email-validator = {version = "*", optional = true }