diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7816ea58e..f211a3781 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 2.7.2
+Saturday, August 29, 2020
+====================================
+- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused a crash with Kaithi.
+- More OOM fixes.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 2.7.1
-Thursday, Aug 13, 2020
+Thursday, August 13, 2020
 ====================================
 - ot-funcs now handles variable empty glyphs better when hvar/vvar isn't present.
 - Reverted a GDEF processing regression.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 53eb80f2a..a3c8a61a0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [2.7.1],
+        [2.7.2],
         [https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 2c477737b..bf3925dbc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('harfbuzz', 'c', 'cpp',
   meson_version: '>= 0.47.0',
-  version: '2.7.1',
+  version: '2.7.2',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_eh=none',          # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-rtti also anyway
     'cpp_rtti=false',       # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-exceptions also anyway
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index 923ccc2d1..92d61b8cd 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ HB_BEGIN_DECLS
 
 #define HB_VERSION_MAJOR 2
 #define HB_VERSION_MINOR 7
-#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 1
+#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 2
 
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "2.7.1"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "2.7.2"
 
 #define HB_VERSION_ATLEAST(major,minor,micro) \
 	((major)*10000+(minor)*100+(micro) <= \