diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a813de27..306dbfb4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 * NEWS (user visible changes)
 
-** Release 0.9.8.5 <unreleased>
+** Release 0.9.8.5 <2012-07-01>
 
 *** mu4e
 
+    - auto-completion of e-mail addresses
     - inline display of images (see `mu4e-view-show-images'), uses imagemagick
       if available
     - interactively change number of headers / columns for showing headers with
@@ -21,12 +22,15 @@
       later)
     - enable changing of sort order, display of threads
     - clearer marks for marked messages
+    - fix sorting by subject (disregarding Re:, Fwd: etc.)
     - much faster handling when there are many maildirs (speedbar)
+    - handle mailto: links
+    - improved, extended documentation  
       
 *** mu
 
     - support .noupdate files (parallel to .noindex, dir is ignored unless we're
-      doing a --rebuild)
+      doing a --rebuild).
     - append all inline text parts, when getting the text body
     - respect custom maildir flags
     - correctly handle the case where g_utf8_strdown (str) > len (str)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ec2f68c7..34a2c888 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -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],[0.9.8.5-dev5],[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/issues/list],[mu])
+AC_INIT([mu],[0.9.8.5],[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
diff --git a/www/index.org b/www/index.org
index 7797ed47..c5bc816f 100644
--- a/www/index.org
+++ b/www/index.org
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 ** Features
 
    - fast indexing for [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir][Maildir]], Maildir+ and Maildir-on-VFAT
-   - search for messages based on the sender, receiver, subject, date range,
+   - search for messages based on the sender, receiver, subject, date-range,
      size, priority, words in message, flags (signed, encrypted, new, replied,
      has-attachment,...), message-id, maildir, tags, attachment (name,
      mime-type, text) and more
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@
 
 
 ** News
-
+   
+   - 2012-07-01: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.5.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.5]]; more fixes, improvements (see the link).
    - 2012-05-08: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.4.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.4]] with even more improvements (the link has
      all the details) 
    - 2012-04-06: released [[http://code.google.com/p/mu0/downloads/detail?name%3Dmu-0.9.8.3.tar.gz][mu-0.9.8.3]], with many improvements, fixes. See the