diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 67bef7f62..1656488f9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 1.0.3
+Tuesday, September 1, 2015
+====================================
+
+- Start of user documentation, from Simon Cozens!
+- Implement glyph_extents() for TrueType fonts in hb-ot-font.
+- Improve GPOS cursive attachments with conflicting lookups.
+- More fixes for cluster-level = 1.
+- Uniscribe positioning fix.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 1.0.2
 Wednesday, August 19, 2015
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2a0bc6a47..45bb689ec 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [1.0.2],
+        [1.0.3],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])