diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0559840cf..e52dc21ba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,20 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 4.3.0
+Friday, May 20, 2022
+====================================
+- Major speed up in loading and subsetting fonts, especially in
+  handling CFF table. Subsetting some fonts is now 3 times faster.
+  (Behdad Esfahbod, Garret Rieger)
+- Speed up blending CFF2 table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+- Speed up hb_ot_tags_from_language(). (Behdad Esfahbod, David Corbett)
+- Fix USE classification of U+10A38 to fix multiple marks on single Kharoshthi
+  base. (David Corbett)
+- Fix parsing of empty CFF Index. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+- Fix subsetting CPAL table with partial palette overlaps. (Garret Rieger)
+
+- New API
++hb_map_is_equal() (Behdad Esfahbod)
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 4.2.1
 Sunday, April 24, 2022
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 295a0c714..ae7b0b5b3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [4.2.1],
+        [4.3.0],
         [https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])
diff --git a/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml b/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
index c31d76922..0c5e582cd 100644
--- a/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
+++ b/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
       <index id="api-index-full"><title>API Index</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-full.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="deprecated-api-index" role="deprecated"><title>Index of deprecated API</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-deprecated.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
 
+      <index id="api-index-4-3-0" role="4.3.0"><title>Index of new symbols in 4.3.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-4.3.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-4-2-0" role="4.2.0"><title>Index of new symbols in 4.2.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-4.2.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-4-1-0" role="4.1.0"><title>Index of new symbols in 4.1.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-4.1.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-4-0-0" role="4.0.0"><title>Index of new symbols in 4.0.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-4.0.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ed59489be..6e9d7693a 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('harfbuzz', 'c', 'cpp',
   meson_version: '>= 0.55.0',
-  version: '4.2.1',
+  version: '4.3.0',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_rtti=false',       # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-exceptions also anyway
     'cpp_std=c++11',
diff --git a/src/hb-map.cc b/src/hb-map.cc
index 9df6df304..6c83c670c 100644
--- a/src/hb-map.cc
+++ b/src/hb-map.cc
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ hb_map_get_population (const hb_map_t *map)
  *
  * Return value: %true if the two maps are equal, %false otherwise.
  *
- * Since: REPLACEME
+ * Since: 4.3.0
  **/
 hb_bool_t
 hb_map_is_equal (const hb_map_t *map,
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index 94c73e15b..ae707cde6 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -47,20 +47,20 @@ HB_BEGIN_DECLS
  *
  * The minor component of the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 2
+#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 3
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_MICRO:
  *
  * The micro component of the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 1
+#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 0
 
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_STRING:
  *
  * A string literal containing the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "4.2.1"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "4.3.0"
 
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_ATLEAST: