diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4503174b7..b233c6888 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,89 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.7
+Sunday, November 21, 2012
+====================================
+
+
+HarfBuzz "All-You-Can-Eat-Sushi" (aka Vancouver) Hackfest and follow-on fixes.
+
+- Fix Arabic contextual joining using pre-context text.
+- Fix Sinhala "split matra" mess.
+- Fix Khmer shaping with broken fonts.
+- Implement Thai "PUA" shaping for old fonts.
+- Do NOT route Kharoshthi script through the Indic shaper.
+- Disable fallback positioning for Indic and Thai shapers.
+- Misc fixes.
+
+
+hb-shape / hb-view changes:
+
+- Add --text-before and --text-after
+- Add --bot / --eot / --preserve-default-ignorables
+- hb-shape --output-format=json
+
+
+New API:
+
+hb_buffer_clear()
+
+hb_buffer_flags_t
+
+HB_BUFFER_FLAGS_DEFAULT
+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_BOT
+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_EOT
+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_PRESERVE_DEFAULT_IGNORABLES
+
+hb_buffer_set_flags()
+hb_buffer_get_flags()
+
+HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAGS
+hb_buffer_serialize_glyphs()
+hb_buffer_deserialize_glyphs()
+hb_buffer_serialize_list_formats()
+
+hb_set_add_range()
+hb_set_del_range()
+hb_set_get_population()
+hb_set_next_range()
+
+hb_face_[sg]et_glyph_count()
+
+hb_segment_properties_t
+HB_SEGMENT_PROPERTIES_DEFAULT
+hb_segment_properties_equal()
+hb_segment_properties_hash()
+
+hb_buffer_set_segment_properties()
+hb_buffer_get_segment_properties()
+
+hb_ot_layout_glyph_class_t
+hb_ot_layout_get_glyph_class()
+hb_ot_layout_get_glyphs_in_class()
+
+hb_shape_plan_t
+hb_shape_plan_create()
+hb_shape_plan_create_cached()
+hb_shape_plan_get_empty()
+hb_shape_plan_reference()
+hb_shape_plan_destroy()
+hb_shape_plan_set_user_data()
+hb_shape_plan_get_user_data()
+hb_shape_plan_execute()
+hb_shape_plan_get_shaper()
+
+hb_ot_shape_plan_collect_lookups()
+
+
+API changes:
+
+- Remove "mask" parameter from hb_buffer_add().
+- Rename hb_ot_layout_would_substitute_lookup() and hb_ot_layout_substitute_closure_lookup().
+- hb-set.h API const correction.
+- Renamed hb_set_min/max() to hb_set_get_min/max().
+- Rename hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookup_indexes() to hb_ot_layout_feature_get_lookups().
+- Rename hb_buffer_guess_properties() to hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties().
+
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.6
 Sunday, November 13, 2012
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b1948f194..42228cbe8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.6],
+        [0.9.7],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])