diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 14d9d6117..fe32008dc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.64.0
+==================================
+
+* Use `posix_spawn()` to speed up launching test D-Bus instances (!1388)
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+ - #1783 Document using glib-mkenums with meson
+ - #2049 Crash in g_array_copy
+ - !1384 Some minor clang warning fixes
+ - !1386 docs: Document generated headers caveats for genmarshal
+ - !1387 ci: Correctly propagate exit status in run-style-check-diff.sh
+ - !1388 gtestdbus: Use posix_spawn() to spawn dbus-daemon
+ - !1389 Update GError docs to use G_DEFINE_QUARK
+
+* Translation updates:
+ - Czech
+ - Danish
+
+
 Overview of changes in GLib 2.63.6
 ==================================
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 2d1c55a17..60f7ce887 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('glib', 'c', 'cpp',
-  version : '2.63.6',
+  version : '2.64.0',
   # NOTE: We keep this pinned at 0.49 because that's what Debian 10 ships
   meson_version : '>= 0.49.2',
   default_options : [