diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 061ccf5..fe3da4b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 4.2.0
+Wednesday, March 30, 2022
+====================================
+- Source code reorganization, splitting large hb-ot-layout files into smaller,
+  per-subtable ones under OT/Layout/*. Code for more tables will follow suit in
+  later releases. (Garret Rieger, Behdad Esfahbod)
+- Revert Indic shaper change in previous release that broke some fonts and
+  instead make per-syllable restriction of “GSUB” application limited to
+  script-specific Indic features, while applying them and discretionary
+  features in one go. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+- Fix decoding of private in gvar table. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+- Fix handling of contextual lookups that delete too many glyphs. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+- Make “morx” deleted glyphs don’t block “GPOS” application. (Behdad Esfahbod)
+- Various build fixes. (Chun-wei Fan, Khaled Hosny)
+
+- New API
++hb_set_next_many() (Andrew John)
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 4.1.0
 Wednesday, March 23, 2022
 ====================================
@@ -10,7 +29,8 @@
 - Various bug fixes.
 
 - New API
-+hb_set_add_sorted_array()
++hb_set_add_sorted_array() (Andrew John)
+
 
 Overview of changes leading to 4.0.1
 Friday, March 11, 2022
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8508488..65246a6 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [4.1.0],
+        [4.2.0],
         [https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])
diff --git a/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml b/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
index 64b2e06..c31d769 100644
--- a/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
+++ b/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
       <index id="api-index-full"><title>API Index</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-full.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="deprecated-api-index" role="deprecated"><title>Index of deprecated API</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-deprecated.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
 
+      <index id="api-index-4-2-0" role="4.2.0"><title>Index of new symbols in 4.2.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-4.2.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-4-1-0" role="4.1.0"><title>Index of new symbols in 4.1.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-4.1.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-4-0-0" role="4.0.0"><title>Index of new symbols in 4.0.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-4.0.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-3-4-0" role="3.4.0"><title>Index of new symbols in 3.4.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-3.4.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 29d9fd5..7de42b8 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('harfbuzz', 'c', 'cpp',
   meson_version: '>= 0.55.0',
-  version: '4.1.0',
+  version: '4.2.0',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_rtti=false',       # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-exceptions also anyway
     'cpp_std=c++11',
diff --git a/src/hb-set.cc b/src/hb-set.cc
index 035f99c..0e2c1f7 100644
--- a/src/hb-set.cc
+++ b/src/hb-set.cc
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@
  *
  * Return value: the number of values written.
  *
- * Since: REPLACEME
+ * Since: 4.2.0
  **/
 unsigned int
 hb_set_next_many (const hb_set_t *set,
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index 1180a3c..39fbde4 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
  *
  * The minor component of the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 1
+#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 2
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_MICRO:
  *
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
  *
  * A string literal containing the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "4.1.0"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "4.2.0"
 
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_ATLEAST: