diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index adc8f694e..21390c618 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.36
+Thursday, November 20, 2014
+=====================================
+
+- First time that three months went by without a release since
+  0.9.2 was released on August 10, 2012!
+- Fix performance bug in hb_ot_collect_glyphs():
+  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1090869
+- Add basic vertical-text support to hb-ot-font.
+- Misc build fixes.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.35
 Saturday, August 13, 2014
 =====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b9e82d9f8..d8b7a03c7 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.35],
+        [0.9.36],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])