diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4fe0da8af..59fac73b9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+Overview of changes in 0.0.97
+=============================
+
+* Allow X11 clients to run as root
+* Color the output only when displaying on a terminal
+* Don't rely on user D-Bus to track time zone configuration
+* Enable running minikube on Silverblue
+* Expose the host's /boot inside the container at /run/host
+* Fix missing terminfo warning for Ubuntu containers
+* Make locate(1) work inside toolbox containers
+* Make pseudo-terminal devices be owned by the 'tty' group
+* Rework test to check if a toolbox container started successfully
+* Run a login shell when falling back to Bash during 'enter'
+
+
 Overview of changes in 0.0.96
 =============================
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 09e7dcec1..0e377b3be 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 project(
   'toolbox',
   'c',
-  version: '0.0.96',
+  version: '0.0.97',
   license: 'ASL 2.0',
   meson_version: '>= 0.40.0',
 )