diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6f733af25..8c3ef117d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 1.4.1
+Thursday, January 5, 2017
+====================================
+
+- Always build and use UCDN for Unicode data by default.
+  Reduces dependence on version of Unicode data in glib,
+  specially in the Windows bundles we are shipping, which
+  have very old glib.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 1.4.0
 Thursday, January 5, 2017
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 5d18f8610..32dcf18ed 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [1.4.0],
+        [1.4.1],
         [https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])