diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 88b1eea00e9154436816a5bd94a55002ae9c4491..16825ff87e4b0b73f25ff10ad99b708c9e49a00c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+Changes for 1.4.2 'Road Runner':
+--------------------------------
+
+1.4.2 is a small release of dav1d, improving notably ARM, AVX-512 and PowerPC
+ - AVX2 optimizations for 8-tap and new variants for 6-tap
+ - AVX-512 optimizations for 8-tap and new variants for 6-tap
+ - Improve entropy decoding on ARM64
+ - New ARM64 optimizations for convolutions based on DotProd extension
+ - New ARM64 optimizations for convolutions based on i8mm extension
+ - New ARM64 optimizations for subpel and prep filters for i8mm
+ - Misc improvements on existing ARM64 optimizations, notably for put/prep
+ - New PowerPC9 optimizations for loopfilter
+ - Support for macOS kperf API for benchmarking
+
+
 Changes for 1.4.1 'Road Runner':
 --------------------------------
 
@@ -246,7 +261,7 @@ Changes for 0.6.0 'Gyrfalcon':
  - New SSSE3 optimizations for film grain
  - New AVX2 optimizations for msac_adapt16
  - Fix rare mismatches against the reference decoder, notably because of clipping
- - Improvements on ARM64 on msac, cdef and looprestoration optimizations
+ - Improvements on ARM64 on msac, cdef, mc_blend_v and looprestoration optimizations
  - Improvements on AVX2 optimizations for cdef_filter
  - Improvements in the C version for itxfm, cdef_filter
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index a2637ed79778c97763351ac348b69e0c82cff85a..f5010ac4855e55d30764e6d721a7474ade037e35 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 # SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 project('dav1d', ['c'],
-    version: '1.4.1',
+    version: '1.4.2',
     default_options: ['c_std=c99',
                       'warning_level=2',
                       'buildtype=release',