diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e5b7037b..4fb9dc56 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,29 +12,10 @@
     - give messages without msgids fake-message-ids; this fixes the problem
       where such messages were not found in --include-related queries
     - cleanup of the query parser
-    - much improved date parsing
-    - support recursive maildirs
-    - many fixes in the query parser; there are still a number of
-      corner cases though, which probably requires writing a custom
-      query parser to fix
-    - drop gmime 2.4 support
 
 *** mu4e
 
-    - update the emacs <-> backend protocol; documented in the
-      mu-server man page
-    - improve saving attachment
-    - allow for visiting multiple URIs
-    - much improved navigation within messages
-
-    - mug
-
-      - only support gtk+ 3.x
-
-    - mu-guile:
-
-      - more examples; bug fixes
-
+    - update the emacs <-> backend protocol; documented in the mu-server man page
 
 ** Release 0.9.9.5
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 620914cb..f9140e17 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
+## Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
 ##
 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 ## along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
 ## Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 
-AC_INIT([mu],[0.9.9.6],[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list],[mu])
+AC_INIT([mu],[0.9.9.6pre3],[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list],[mu])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([mu/mu.cc])
 # libtoolize wants to put some stuff in here; if you have an old