diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9d44a154..e5741b42 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
-since 0.96:
+since 0.97:
+[...]
+
+
+0.97:
+- added initial revision handling:
+    - extended "osc co prj pac" to checkout a specific revision of pac
+    - extended "osc up" to update to a specific revision
+    - extended "osc diff" to diff the working copy against a
+      specific revision on the server. NOTE: comparing two
+      server-side revisions (osc diff -r 11:12) is currently
+      not supported!
+- load subcommands from /var/lib/osc-plugins/ or ~/.osc-plugins/
+- updatepacmetafromspec scans for spec files automatically. Added --specfile option to updatepacmetafromspec.
+- wipebinaries: allow to wipe all binaries of packages for which the build is disabled
+- addremove: ignore foo.rXX, foo.mine for files which are in 'C' state
 - ls: add verbose option to print extra information for packages
 - for all server-side commands, allow arguments "foo/bar" instead of "foo bar"
 - new wipebinaries and abortbuild commands, by courtesy of Marcus Huewe
diff --git a/osc/core.py b/osc/core.py
index 68d54ddd..bf7523f7 100755
--- a/osc/core.py
+++ b/osc/core.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence,
 # either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
 
-__version__ = '0.96'
+__version__ = '0.97'
 
 import os
 import sys
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ def check_store_version(dir):
         sys.exit(1)
 
     if v != __version__:
-        if v in ['0.2', '0.3', '0.4', '0.5', '0.6', '0.7', '0.8', '0.9', '0.95']:
+        if v in ['0.2', '0.3', '0.4', '0.5', '0.6', '0.7', '0.8', '0.9', '0.95', '0.96']:
             # version is fine, no migration needed
             f = open(versionfile, 'w')
             f.write(__version__ + '\n')