2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4b8b20d..78f5153 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+44.alpha.1
+----------
+
+This is an early release to support building against the new webkitgtk-6.0 API
+from WebKitGTK 2.39.1, or webkit2gtk-5.0 as before. (!164)
+
+There are no other changes compared to the GNOME 43 branch.
+
 43.1
 ----
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 48ad1b7..f5a95d3 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('gnome-initial-setup',
         ['c'],
-        version: '44.alpha',
+        version: '44.alpha.1',
         license: 'GPL-2.0-or-later',
         meson_version: '>= 0.60.0',
 )