diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c4950e262..d985427dd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.41
+Thursday, June 18, 2015
+=====================================
+
+- Fix hb-coretext with trailing whitespace in right-to-left.
+- New API: hb_buffer_reverse_range().
+- Allow implementing atomic ops in config.h.
+- Fix hb_language_t in language bindings.
+- Misc fixes.
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.40
 Friday, March 20, 2015
 =====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 965a06cf8..4d2bbf81e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.40],
+        [0.9.41],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])