diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ef87dad..f3e424f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 2.4.0
+Monday, March 25, 2019
+====================================
+- Unicode 12.
+- Misc fixes.
+- Subsetter improvements.
+- New API:
+HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DO_NOT_INSERT_DOTTED_CIRCLE
+hb_directwrite_face_create()
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 2.3.1
 Wednesday, January 30, 2019
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 718f1d0..b51ac4a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [2.3.1],
+        [2.4.0],
         [https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])
diff --git a/src/hb-buffer.h b/src/hb-buffer.h
index 43aeb99..ac1d452 100644
--- a/src/hb-buffer.h
+++ b/src/hb-buffer.h
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
  * @HB_BUFFER_FLAG_DO_NOT_INSERT_DOTTED_CIRCLE:
  *                      flag indicating that a dotted circle should
  *                      not be inserted in the rendering of incorrect
- *                      character sequences (such at <0905 093E>). Since: REPLACEME
+ *                      character sequences (such at <0905 093E>). Since: 2.4
  *
  * Since: 0.9.20
  */
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index 13db8ce..783e37b 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@
 
 
 #define HB_VERSION_MAJOR 2
-#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 3
-#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 1
+#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 4
+#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 0
 
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "2.3.1"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "2.4.0"
 
 #define HB_VERSION_ATLEAST(major,minor,micro) \
 	((major)*10000+(minor)*100+(micro) <= \