diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4d450d07b..ca9ec1da4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,46 +1,3 @@
-3.36.1
-======
-* Fix hardware cursor on GPU hotplpug [Pekka; !1097]
-* Fix black areas around XWayland windows when resizing [Robert, Olivier; !1091]
-* Fix applying wrong scale to monitors on X11 [Jonas; !1118]
-* Fix moving/resizing windows via keyboard on wayland [Alynx; !997]
-* Fix locate-pointer feature interfering with keybindings [Carlos; !1014]
-* Add support for middle-click emulation [Andrew; !256]
-* Fix freeze when moving cursor between scaled monitors [Robert; !1125]
-* Fix popup misplacement with focus-follows-mouse [Jonas Å.; !1122]
-* Fix misplaced cursor in preedit strings [Carlos; !1132]
-* Support mirroring with proprietary Nvidia driver [Jonas Å.; !1098]
-* Support tablets with multiple mode switch buttons in a group [Carlos; !970]
-* Ignore foreground color for color glyphs (emojis) [Carlos; !1148]
-* Allow pad mode switches while showing OSD [Carlos; !975]
-* Fix positioning of OSD for display-attached tablets [Carlos; !971]
-* Respect configured RANDR panning on X11 [Jonas Å.; !1085]
-* Use correct texture filtering with scaled displays [Jonas; !1124]
-* Fix cursor hotspots in virtual machines [Jonas Å.; !1136]
-* Fix build with GLES and no GL [Georges; !1151]
-* Work around Firefox bug when copying images on wayland [Robert; !1141]
-* Fix wrong cursor rotation on rotated displays [Hans; !1153]
-* Fix glitches in window screencasts [Georges; !1129]
-* Fix IM support for deleting surrounding text [Takao, Carlos; #539]
-* Fix map animation of maximized windows [Robert; !1164]
-* Fixed crashes [Jonas Å., Carlos, Florian, Robert; !1120, !1121,
-  #917, #1132, #1083, !1147, #1147]
-* Misc. bug fixes and cleanups [Jonas Å., Olivier, Mart, Sebastian, Corentin,
-  Andre, Daniel, Robert, Carlos, Peter, Georges, Jonas D., Florian, Christian;
-  !1115, !1102, !1104, !1106, !1117, !1119, !1101, !1123, #1124, !1130, !1131,
-  !1133, #1065, !1108, !1144, !1145, !1109, !1059, !1107, !999, !1152, #1128,
-  !1155, !1156, !1158, !1157, #1146, !1161, !1163]
-
-Contributors:
-  Jonas Dreßler, Olivier Fourdan, Takao Fujiwara, Carlos Garnacho, Andrew Gaul,
-  Hans de Goede, Peter Hutterer, Sebastian Keller, Robert Mader,
-  Andre Moreira Magalhaes, Florian Müllner, Georges Basile Stavracas Neto,
-  Corentin Noël, Pekka Paalanen, Christian Rauch, Mart Raudsepp,
-  Daniel van Vugt, Alynx Zhou, Jonas Ådahl
-
-Translators:
-  Марко Костић [sr], Daniel Șerbănescu [ro]
-
 3.36.0
 ======
 * Fix placement of popup windows in multi-monitor setups [Jonas; !1110]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 3b8d51923..03fb918f1 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('mutter', 'c',
-  version: '3.36.1',
+  version: '3.36.0',
   meson_version: '>= 0.50.0',
   license: 'GPLv2+'
 )