diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 04c3a02a2..d3dbe1ae2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.3
+Friday, Aug 18, 2012
+====================================
+
+- Fixed fallback mark positioning for left-to-right text.
+
+- Improve mark positioning for the remaining combining classes.
+
+- Unbreak Thai and fallback Arabic shaping.
+
+- Port Arabic shaper to shape-plan caching.
+
+- Use new ICU normalizer functions.
+
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.2
 Friday, Aug 10, 2012
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5866e1694..916a5d47b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.2],
+        [0.9.3],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])