diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3a3962bcf..92e5a5370 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 1.5.1
+Tuesday, September 5, 2017
+====================================
+
+- Fix "unsafe-to-break" in fallback shaping and other corner cases.
+  All our tests pass with --verify now, meaning unsafe-to-break API
+  works as expected.
+- Add --unicodes to hb-view / hb-shape.
+- [indic] Treat Consonant_With_Stacker as consonant.  This will need
+  further tweaking.
+- hb_buffer_diff() tweaks.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 1.5.0
 Wednesday, August 23, 2017
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 82895eab9..9151abc05 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [1.5.0],
+        [1.5.1],
         [https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])