diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a1cb912..4a4814e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+* fuse-overlayfs-1.15
+
+- main: lookup upperdir only for created directories.
+- main: allow escaped colons in directory paths.
+- main: use extended override xattr to support devices.
+- remove unsupported option "lazytime".
+
 * fuse-overlayfs-1.14
 
 - isolate security xattrs for STAT_OVERRIDE_CONTAINERS.  Prefix all
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index dcad101..de8fd39 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.15-dev], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
+AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.16-dev], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([main.c])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])