diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0c56e7ec9..0cf53905c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+3.29.1
+======
+* Support icons in app-menu [Florian; #760985]
+* Misc. bug fixes [Marco, Florian, Lubomir; #792687, #221, !63]
+
+Contributors:
+  Piotr Drąg, Takao Fujiwara, Christian Kellner, Florian Müllner,
+  Mario Sanchez Prada, Lubomir Rintel, Didier Roche, Marco Trevisan (Treviño),
+  verdre
+
+Translators:
+  gogo [hr], Stas Solovey [ru], Matej Urbančič [sl], Daniel Șerbănescu [ro],
+  Fabio Tomat [fur], Marek Cernocky [cs], Daniel Mustieles [es]
+
 3.28.1
 ======
 * Fix compose characters in shell entries [Carlos; #115]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 1c0b68c71..5601c96ca 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gnome-shell', 'c',
-  version: '3.28.1',
+  version: '3.29.1',
   meson_version: '>= 0.42.0',
   license: 'GPLv2+'
 )
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ gi_req = '>= 1.49.1'
 gjs_req = '>= 1.47.0'
 gtk_req = '>= 3.15.0'
 json_glib_req = '>= 0.13.2'
-mutter_req = '>= 3.28.0'
+mutter_req = '>= 3.29.1'
 polkit_req = '>= 0.100'
 schemas_req = '>= 3.21.3'
 startup_req = '>= 0.11'