GLib 2.44.0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 46dbea9..30a634f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.44.0
+===================================
+
+With the exception of translation and documentation, there have been no
+changes since the prerelease.
+
+Bugs fixed:
+ 730188 gsocket: Document FD ownership with g_socket_new_from_fd()
+
+Translations updated:
+ Basque language
+ Brazilian Portuguese
+ Chinese (Taiwan)
+ Danish
+ Galician s
+ Hebrew
+ Indonesian
+ Norwegian bokmål
+ Turkish
+
 Overview of changes in GLib 2.43.92
 ===================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7350fb5..b707688 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], [43])
-m4_define([glib_micro_version], [92])
+m4_define([glib_minor_version], [44])
+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)])