diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b90064f..f2b0a32 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 1.0.6
+Thursday, October 15, 2015
+====================================
+
+- Reduce max nesting level in OT lookups from 8 to 6.
+  Should not affect any real font as far as I know.
+- Fix memory access issue in ot-font.
+- Revert default load-flags of fonts created using hb_ft_font_create()
+  back to FT_LOAD_DEFAULT|FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.  This was changed in
+  last release (1.0.5), but caused major issues, so revert.
+  https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/143
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 1.0.5
 Tuesday, October 13, 2015
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d83a199..7e4142b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [1.0.5],
+        [1.0.6],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])