2.49.7
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3535841..1aad418 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.49.7
+==================================
+
+* Add g_log_variant, binding-friendly api for structured logging
+
+Bugs fixed:
+ 646926 arg_data invalid after g_option_context_parse() fails
+
+* Translation updates:
+ Danish
+ Finnish
+ Galician
+ German
+ Hebrew
+ Kazakh
+ Korean
+ Latvian
+ Lithuanian
+ Polish
+ Portuguese
+ Serbian
+ Slovak
+ Spanish
+ Swedish
+ Thai
+
+
Overview of changes in GLib 2.49.6
==================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7ea6f59..91699b4 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
m4_define([glib_major_version], [2])
m4_define([glib_minor_version], [49])
-m4_define([glib_micro_version], [6])
+m4_define([glib_micro_version], [7])
m4_define([glib_interface_age], [0])
m4_define([glib_binary_age],
[m4_eval(100 * glib_minor_version + glib_micro_version)])
