diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,62 @@
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.83.5, 2025-02-28
+==============================================
+
+* A few improvements for when GLib is used as a subproject (#3625, #3626, work
+  by Simon McVittie)
+
+* Fix out-of-order parameters in a marshaller generated by `gdbus-codegen`
+  (!4524, work by Ryan Gonzalez)
+
+* Bugs fixed:
+  - #3272 gutils-user-database test crashes in CI with G_DISABLE_ASSERT and -m
+    thorough (Philip Withnall)
+  - #3424 Update the release instructions (Philip Withnall)
+  - #3615 Use of timeout in GApplication example code (Reuben Thomas)
+  - #3625 when GLib is a subproject, check-missing-install-tag.py asserts that
+    the parent project has install tags (Simon McVittie)
+  - #3626 when GLib is a subproject and pcre2 is a subproject, pcre2's tests are
+    run (Simon McVittie)
+  - !4507 [th/gdataset-misc] minor improvements in gdataset.c (around
+    g_datalist_id_remove_multiple())
+  - !4508 [th/datalist-update-atomic-no-keyid] gdataset: drop "key_id" argument
+    from GDataListUpdateAtomicFunc
+  - !4509 tests: Search the appropriate directories for our GIR XML inputs
+  - !4510 doc: Simplify instructions for testing with Automake
+  - !4511 Update Georgian translation
+  - !4512 Update Czech translation
+  - !4513 [th/gobject-inline-private-call] gobject: avoid GLIB_PRIVATE_CALL()
+    for g_datalist_id_update_atomic
+  - !4514 Update Ukrainian translation
+  - !4515 doc: point to iconv(3) and iconv(3posix) for more details about iconv
+  - !4516 Update Bulgarian translation
+  - !4517 Update file fa.po
+  - !4518 Update Chinese translation
+  - !4521 docs: Fix man page link for xattrs
+  - !4522 Meson: Disable lint+no-valgrind tests when tests option is set to
+    false
+  - !4523 [th/gobj-performance-fixes] improvements and fixes for gobject's
+    `performance.c` benchmark
+  - !4524 gdbus-codegen: Fix callback GUnixFDList parameter order
+  - !4526 [th/gobj-performance-2] more improvements to GObject's `performance.c`
+    and add test "property-set-signaled"
+  - !4527 Updated Lithuanian translation
+  - !4529 Update Portuguese translation
+  - !4531 Update Swedish translation
+  - !4535 Update Galician translations
+
+* Translation updates:
+  - Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
+  - Chinese (China) (lumingzh)
+  - Czech (AsciiWolf)
+  - Galician (Fran Diéguez)
+  - Georgian (NorwayFun)
+  - Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
+  - Persian (Danial Behzadi)
+  - Portuguese (Hugo Carvalho)
+  - Swedish (Anders Jonsson)
+  - Ukrainian (Yuri Chornoivan)
+
+
 Overview of changes in GLib 2.83.4, 2025-02-20
 ==============================================
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5de87d235..487d12978 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('glib', 'c',
-  version : '2.83.4',
+  version : '2.83.5',
   # NOTE: See the policy in docs/meson-version.md before changing the Meson dependency
   meson_version : '>= 1.4.0',
   default_options : [