diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5289e0c..d5f5352 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+0.19.0
+ * secret-password: Add necessary functions to migrate from D-Bus based API [!32]
+ * egg: Request that secure memory not be dumped to disk [!30]
+ * Add version macros [!29]
+ * Add missing GType to flags in .gir [!16, !19]
+ * paths: Port from GSimpleAsyncResult to GTask [!26]
+ * build: Bump meson_version to 0.50 [!18, !35]
+ * Build and test fixes [!15, !20, !21, !23, !33, ...]
+
 0.18.8
  * Add support for g_autoptr() to our types [!11]
  * Remove deprecated g_type_class_add_private() [!14]
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 230491b..c0a0ca9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 AC_PREREQ(2.63)
 
 m4_define([libsecret_major_version], 0)
-m4_define([libsecret_minor_version], 18)
-m4_define([libsecret_micro_version], 8)
+m4_define([libsecret_minor_version], 19)
+m4_define([libsecret_micro_version], 0)
 m4_define([libsecret_version],
           [libsecret_major_version.libsecret_minor_version.libsecret_micro_version])
 AC_INIT([libsecret],[libsecret_version],
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4f2305c..de33dbf 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('libsecret', 'c',
-  version: '0.18.8',
+  version: '0.19.0',
   license: 'GPL2+',
   meson_version: '>= 0.50',
 )