diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d4abe3a5f..6ea999b93 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.56.2
+==================================
+
+* Support version 2 of the NetworkMonitor portal interface
+
+* Bug fixes:
+ 740791 gio: cannot specify the source when joining a multicast group...
+ 755721 g_inotify_file_monitor_start called with nullpointer for dirn...
+ 773435 After g_get_home_dir() fails, a second use deadlocks
+ 793727 Use-after-free in emit_network_changed() of gnetworkmonitorba...
+ 794380 Build failure of gcocoanotificationbackend.c on OS X < 10.9
+ 794801 /network-monitor/add_networks fails if there is a proxy and g...
+ 795138 gobject build failure with gcc <= 4.7
+ 795234 Fix Jenkins CI build failures for network tests
+ 795406 Glib fails to build for Android
+ 795429 glib-genmarshal shows redundant "time" warning message agains...
+ 795711 gitlab-ci: update meson
+ 795735 Fix comparison for GVariant property values
+ 795802 gdbus-codegen doesn't accept --output-directory with --output...
+ #1240 W32: g_get_system_data_dirs() works differently for C++ applic...
+#1401 g_clear_handle_id: clear_func is nullable, despite documentatin...
+#1452 GFileInfo: unable to retrieve correct modification time of link...
+#1458 g_volume_get_mount returns NULL value after g_volume_mount_fini...
+
+* Translation updates
+ Russian
+ Slovenian
+
 Overview of changes in GLib 2.56.1
 ==================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 014681457..fb0724914 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ m4_define(glib_configure_ac)
 
 m4_define([glib_major_version], [2])
 m4_define([glib_minor_version], [56])
-m4_define([glib_micro_version], [1])
-m4_define([glib_interface_age], [1])
+m4_define([glib_micro_version], [2])
+m4_define([glib_interface_age], [2])
 m4_define([glib_binary_age],
           [m4_eval(100 * glib_minor_version + glib_micro_version)])
 m4_define([glib_version],
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index bc7fb0ac4..de18f191f 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('glib', 'c', 'cpp',
-  version : '2.56.1',
+  version : '2.56.2',
   meson_version : '>= 0.44.0',
   default_options : [
     'warning_level=1',