diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 37778a6..d65920b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+* fuse-overlayfs-1.5
+
+- honor FUSE_OVERLAYFS_DISABLE_OVL_WHITEOUT also for renames
+- use strncpy instead of strcpy
+- fix renameat2(RENAME_NOREPLACE) on older kernels that lack
+  device whiteouts for unprivileged users.
+- fix creating a symlink on top of a removed file.
+- fix copyup of xattrs longer than 256 bytes.
+
 * fuse-overlayfs-1.4
 
 - add squash_to_uid and squash_to_gid
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 69039ed..b5d2a7e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.4], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
+AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.5], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([main.c])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])