diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1145412cb..f15c555c2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 5.2.0
+Saturday, September 17, 2022
+====================================
+- Fix regressions in hb-ft font functions for FT_Face’s with transformation
+  matrix. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+- The experimental hb-repacker API now supports splitting several GPOS subtable
+  types when needed. (Garret Rieger)
+- The HarfBuzz extensions to OpenType font format are now opt-in behind
+  build-time flags. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+- The experimental hb-subset variable fonts instantiation API can now
+  instantiate more font tables and arbitrary axis locations. (Qunxin Liu)
+- Unicode 15 support. (David Corbett)
+- Various documentation improvements. (Behdad Esfahbod, Matthias Clasen)
+- The hb-view command line tool now detects WezTerm inline images support.
+  (Wez Furlong)
+- Fix FreeType and ICU dependency lookup with meson. (Xavier Claessens)
+
+- New API:
++HB_SCRIPT_KAWI
++HB_SCRIPT_NAG_MUNDARI
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 5.1.0
 Sunday, July 31, 2022
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0add0bb59..28b09bc24 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [5.1.0],
+        [5.2.0],
         [https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b8b143948..45db90cab 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('harfbuzz', 'c', 'cpp',
   meson_version: '>= 0.55.0',
-  version: '5.1.0',
+  version: '5.2.0',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_rtti=false',       # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-exceptions also anyway
     'cpp_std=c++11',
diff --git a/src/hb-common.h b/src/hb-common.h
index 9721f3880..e92feb989 100644
--- a/src/hb-common.h
+++ b/src/hb-common.h
@@ -495,8 +495,8 @@ hb_language_matches (hb_language_t language,
  * @HB_SCRIPT_TOTO: `Toto`, Since: 3.0.0
  * @HB_SCRIPT_VITHKUQI: `Vith`, Since: 3.0.0
  * @HB_SCRIPT_MATH: `Zmth`, Since: 3.4.0
- * @HB_SCRIPT_KAWI: `Kawi`, Since: REPLACEME
- * @HB_SCRIPT_NAG_MUNDARI: `Nagm`, Since: REPLACEME
+ * @HB_SCRIPT_KAWI: `Kawi`, Since: 5.2.0
+ * @HB_SCRIPT_NAG_MUNDARI: `Nagm`, Since: 5.2.0
  * @HB_SCRIPT_INVALID: No script set
  *
  * Data type for scripts. Each #hb_script_t's value is an #hb_tag_t corresponding
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ typedef enum
   HB_SCRIPT_MATH			= HB_TAG ('Z','m','t','h'),
 
   /*
-   * Since REPLACEME
+   * Since 5.2.0
    */
   HB_SCRIPT_KAWI			= HB_TAG ('K','a','w','i'), /*15.0*/
   HB_SCRIPT_NAG_MUNDARI			= HB_TAG ('N','a','g','m'), /*15.0*/
diff --git a/src/hb-subset-input.cc b/src/hb-subset-input.cc
index 7d1949627..14ae210d4 100644
--- a/src/hb-subset-input.cc
+++ b/src/hb-subset-input.cc
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ hb_subset_input_get_user_data (const hb_subset_input_t *input,
  *
  * Return value: `true` if success, `false` otherwise
  *
- * Since: REPLACEME
+ * Since: EXPERIMENTAL
  **/
 hb_bool_t
 hb_subset_input_pin_axis_to_default (hb_subset_input_t  *input,
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ hb_subset_input_pin_axis_to_default (hb_subset_input_t  *input,
  *
  * Return value: `true` if success, `false` otherwise
  *
- * Since: REPLACEME
+ * Since: EXPERIMENTAL
  **/
 hb_bool_t
 hb_subset_input_pin_axis_location (hb_subset_input_t  *input,
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index a1586a58b..fa7403cae 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ HB_BEGIN_DECLS
  *
  * The minor component of the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 1
+#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 2
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_MICRO:
  *
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ HB_BEGIN_DECLS
  *
  * A string literal containing the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "5.1.0"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "5.2.0"
 
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_ATLEAST: