2.56.0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4685309..cec3ab7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,52 @@
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.56.0
+==================================
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ 672777 Error in gdummyfile.c
+ 732184 GObject: warn on use of deprecated properties
+ 733338 Don't segfault in GNetworkMonitor when IPv6 support is unavailable
+ 742124 g_data_input_stream_read_upto()'s documentation should say that the...
+ 749206 GDateTime: month names in the genitive case
+ 768507 simplify qguark functions
+ 791457 Slow transfer rate when writing to smb/cifs
+ 793272 fix GCC 8.0's -Wcast-function-type warnings
+ 793300 g_hash_table_add() return value change in 2.40 not mentioned in docs
+ 793399 Fix some cases of -Wduplicated-branches
+ 793555 -Wimplicit-function-declaration when using g_abort()
+ 793565 GLib does not compile on macOS 10.13 due to .m file naming
+ 793597 gdbus-tool: Make --dest optional for emit again
+ 793635 Enable CI for GLib
+ 793880 gnetworkmonitor: Minor fixes based on code review
+ 793578 gdatetime tests depend on Japanese translation of month names
+ 794180 test_month_names fails unless installed
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Brazilian Portuguese
+ British English
+ Catalan
+ Czech
+ Danish
+ Dutch
+ Finnish
+ French
+ Friulian
+ Galician
+ German
+ Hungarian
+ Indonesian
+ Italian
+ Kazakh
+ Korean
+ Lithuanian
+ Polish
+ Scottish Gaelic
+ Serbian
+ Serbian Latin
+ Spanish
+ Swedish
+ Turkish
+
+
Overview of changes in GLib 2.55.2
==================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1f6875b..2330024 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
# <mclasen> on the unstable (ie master), interface age = 0
m4_define([glib_major_version], [2])
-m4_define([glib_minor_version], [55])
-m4_define([glib_micro_version], [2])
+m4_define([glib_minor_version], [56])
+m4_define([glib_micro_version], [0])
m4_define([glib_interface_age], [0])
m4_define([glib_binary_age],
[m4_eval(100 * glib_minor_version + glib_micro_version)])
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ab37798..d9bf2c4 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
project('glib', 'c', 'cpp',
- version : '2.55.2',
+ version : '2.56.0',
meson_version : '>= 0.44.0',
default_options : [
'warning_level=1',
