diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9e2bcfa84..86178f152 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+Overview of changes in GLib 2.46.0
+==================================
+
+* Disable runtime-deprecation warnings
+
+* Fix marshalling of flags on bigendian 64bit architectures
+
+* Translation updates
+ Brazilian Portuguese
+ Danish
+ German
+ Latvian
+ Russian
+ Turkish
+
+
 Overview of changes in GLib 2.45.8
 ==================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ffca7a2ed..e4dc6473c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ m4_define(glib_configure_ac)
 # <mclasen> on the unstable (ie master), interface age = 0
 
 m4_define([glib_major_version], [2])
-m4_define([glib_minor_version], [45])
-m4_define([glib_micro_version], [8])
+m4_define([glib_minor_version], [46])
+m4_define([glib_micro_version], [0])
 m4_define([glib_interface_age], [0])
 m4_define([glib_binary_age],
           [m4_eval(100 * glib_minor_version + glib_micro_version)])