diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a5ac9067b..d0798773d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.42
+Thursday, July 26, 2015
+=====================================
 
+- New API to allow for retrieving finer-grained cluster
+  mappings if the client desires to handle them.  Default
+  behavior is unchanged.
+- Fix cluster merging when removing default-ignorables.
+- Update to Unicode 8.0
+- hb-graphite2 fixes.
+- Misc fixes.
 - Removed HB_NO_MERGE_CLUSTERS hack.
 - New API:
   hb_buffer_cluster_level_t enum
@@ -6,6 +16,7 @@
   hb_buffer_set_cluster_level()
   hb-shape / hb-view --cluster-level
 
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.41
 Thursday, June 18, 2015
 =====================================
@@ -16,6 +27,7 @@ Thursday, June 18, 2015
 - Fix hb_language_t in language bindings.
 - Misc fixes.
 
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.40
 Friday, March 20, 2015
 =====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4d2bbf81e..ff61c9521 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.41],
+        [0.9.42],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])