diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 51fe2cea0..7542e8e66 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.12
+Thursday, January 18, 2013
+=====================================
+
+- Build fixes for Sun compiler.
+- Minor bug fix.
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.11
 Thursday, January 10, 2013
 =====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e95e48faa..202bef95f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.11],
+        [0.9.12],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])