diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index df28c8559..0a2477268 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.25
+Wednesday, December 4, 2013
+=====================================
+
+- Myanmar shaper improvements.
+- Avoid font fallback in CoreText backend.
+- Additional OpenType language tag mappiongs.
+- More aggressive shape-plan caching.
+- Build with / require automake 1.13.
+- Build with libtool 2.4.2.418 alpha to support ppc64le.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.24
 Tuesday, November 13, 2013
 =====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 93b3bcac3..42b8b5fc6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.24],
+        [0.9.25],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])