diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b058bad..3a3962b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,47 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 1.5.0
+Wednesday, August 23, 2017
+====================================
+
+- Misc new API, for appending a buffer to another, and for comparing
+  contents of two buffers for types of differences.
+
+- New "unsafe-to-break" API.  Can be used to speed up reshaping
+  in line-breaking situations.  Essentially, after shaping, it returns
+  positions in the input string (some of the cluster boundaries) that
+  are "safe to break" in that if the text is segmented at that position
+  and two sides reshaped and concatenated, the shaping result is
+  exactly the same as shaping the text in one piece.
+
+  hb-view and hb-shape and hb-shape now take --verify, which verifies
+  the above property.
+
+  Some corner cases of the implementation are still not quite working.
+  Those will be fixed in subsequent releases.
+
+- New API:
+
+hb_buffer_append()
+
+hb_glyph_flags_t
+HB_GLYPH_FLAG_UNSAFE_TO_BREAK
+HB_GLYPH_FLAG_DEFINED
+hb_glyph_info_get_glyph_flags()
+
+HB_BUFFER_SERIALIZE_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS
+
+hb_buffer_diff_flags_t
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_EQUAL
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CONTENT_TYPE_MISMATCH
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_LENGTH_MISMATCH
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_NOTDEF_PRESENT
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_DOTTED_CIRCLE_PRESENT
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CODEPOINT_MISMATCH
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_CLUSTER_MISMATCH
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_GLYPH_FLAGS_MISMATCH
+HB_BUFFER_DIFF_FLAG_POSITION_MISMATCH
+hb_buffer_diff
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 1.4.8
 Tuesday, August 8, 2017
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 52134c8..82895ea 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [1.4.8],
+        [1.5.0],
         [https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])