diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5b29ca9ef..63af37671 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.5
+Sunday, October 14, 2012
+====================================
+
+- Synthetic-GSUB Arabic fallback shaping.
+
+- Misc Indic improvements.
+
+- Add build system support for pthread.
+
+- Imported UCDN for in-tree Unicode callbacks implementation.
+
+- Context-aware Arabic joining.
+
+- Misc other fixes.
+
+- New API:
+
+  hb_feature_to/from-string()
+  hb_buffer_[sg]et_content_type()
+
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.4
 Tuesday, Sep 03, 2012
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 714e4ea2a..93b659b68 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.4],
+        [0.9.5],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])