diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 626dafe..9154938 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 8.2.2
+Wednesday, October 18, 2023
+“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”
+====================================
+- Fix regression from 8.1.0 in shaping fonts with duplicate feature tags.
+- Fix regression from 8.2.0 in parsing CSS-style feature strings.
+- Variable fonts instanciation now handles more tables.
+- Various CMake build improvements.
+- various fixes to build without errors with gcc 4.9.2.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 8.2.1
 Monday, September 18, 2023
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index eece691..fbcd257 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [8.2.1],
+        [8.2.2],
         [https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index fc0892b..05ab1ab 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('harfbuzz', 'c', 'cpp',
   meson_version: '>= 0.55.0',
-  version: '8.2.1',
+  version: '8.2.2',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_eh=none',          # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-exceptions also anyway
     # 'cpp_rtti=false',     # Do NOT enable, wraps inherit it and ICU needs RTTI
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index 73fa16c..cd7257e 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -53,14 +53,14 @@
  *
  * The micro component of the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 1
+#define HB_VERSION_MICRO 2
 
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_STRING:
  *
  * A string literal containing the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "8.2.1"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "8.2.2"
 
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_ATLEAST: