diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 40b3834d2..7b6602f8e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+42.8
+====
+* Lower OOM score of gnome-shell process [Jian-Hong; !2582]
+* Fixed crash [Florian; !2622]
+* Plugged leak [Sebastian; !2637]
+* Misc. bug fixes and cleanups [Florian, Jonas, Alessandro, Sebastian; !2571,
+  !2594, !2606, !2604, !2399, !2625, !2552, !2514]
+
+Contributors:
+  Alessandro Bono, Jonas Dreßler, Sebastian Keller, Florian Müllner,
+  Jian-Hong Pan, Nart Tlisha
+
+Translators:
+  Sergej A [ru], Nart Tlisha [ab]
+
 42.7
 ====
 * Properly apply saved shortcuts inhibition permissions [Florian; !2548]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index fe772b6c7..35a1110b0 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gnome-shell', 'c',
-  version: '42.7',
+  version: '42.8',
   meson_version: '>= 0.58.0',
   license: 'GPLv2+'
 )
diff --git a/subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/org.gnome.Extensions.metainfo.xml.in b/subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/org.gnome.Extensions.metainfo.xml.in
index 69d5c3d33..a843765aa 100644
--- a/subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/org.gnome.Extensions.metainfo.xml.in
+++ b/subprojects/extensions-app/data/metainfo/org.gnome.Extensions.metainfo.xml.in
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
   </description>
 
   <releases>
+    <release version="42.8" date="2023-02-13"/>
     <release version="42.7" date="2022-12-06"/>
     <release version="42.6" date="2022-10-25"/>
     <release version="42.5" date="2022-09-17"/>
diff --git a/subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build b/subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build
index e0db3c96f..f68420a5d 100644
--- a/subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/extensions-app/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gnome-extensions-app',
-  version: '42.7',
+  version: '42.8',
   meson_version: '>= 0.58.0',
   license: 'GPLv2+'
 )
diff --git a/subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build b/subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build
index 111817e8d..bec2a4b28 100644
--- a/subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/extensions-tool/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gnome-extensions-tool', 'c',
-  version: '42.7',
+  version: '42.8',
   meson_version: '>= 0.58.0',
   license: 'GPLv2+'
 )
diff --git a/subprojects/shew/meson.build b/subprojects/shew/meson.build
index 4066d6b8a..24f180324 100644
--- a/subprojects/shew/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/shew/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('shew', 'c',
-  version: '42.7',
+  version: '42.8',
   meson_version: '>= 0.58.0',
   license: 'LGPLv2+',
 )