diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6f46119c8156187eb6404c9a2ef93b273ec1dff3..52686870c31de238cdbffb0eb0d5383e67da0204 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 1.3.1
+Wednesday, September 7, 2016
+====================================
+
+- Blacklist bad GDEF of more fonts (Padauk).
+- More CoreText backend crash fixes with OS X 10.9.5.
+- Misc fixes.
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 1.3.0
 Thursday, July 21, 2016
 ====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e572d98c9f4f40cb0814eaf98cbdac24b7c77166..ea6fc27cb9c53e9c239b8dc2d17a68e51d47b580 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [1.3.0],
+        [1.3.1],
         [https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/new],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])