diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3ea158b4a1feafbdbbc194474e340611cd9755bd..db6ffe865bb2394c7d7dfdd43caf963c5216e437 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+48.alpha
+========
+* Replace X-GNOME-Utilities category with Utility (Daniel Rusek)
+* Metainfo improvements (Brage Fuglseth)
+
+* Translation updates:
+  - Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)
+  - Dutch (Nathan Follens)
+  - Friulian (Fabio Tomat)
+  - Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)
+  - Portuguese (Brazil) (Juliano de Souza Camargo)
+  - Romanian (Florentina Mușat)
+  - Serbian (Марко Костић)
+
 47.0
 ====
 * Port to AdwSpinner (Christopher Davis)
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.baobab.metainfo.xml.in b/data/org.gnome.baobab.metainfo.xml.in
index 1a0efa65b4e0363b44eba4ccaf9691425418dc04..62fc2a37cbfa4ddeb281f3c868e549d471e873f1 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.baobab.metainfo.xml.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.baobab.metainfo.xml.in
@@ -57,6 +57,25 @@
   </supports>
 
   <releases>
+    <release version="48.alpha" date="2025-01-11" type="development">
+      <description>
+        <p>Disk Usage Analyzer 48.alpha comes with following updates:</p>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Replace X-GNOME-Utilities category with Utility (Daniel Rusek)</li>
+          <li>Metainfo improvements (Brage Fuglseth)</li>
+        </ul>
+        <p>The following translations were updated:</p>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Catalan (Jordi Mas i Hernandez)</li>
+          <li>Dutch (Nathan Follens)</li>
+          <li>Friulian (Fabio Tomat)</li>
+          <li>Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)</li>
+          <li>Portuguese (Brazil) (Juliano de Souza Camargo)</li>
+          <li>Romanian (Florentina Mușat)</li>
+          <li>Serbian (Марко Костић)</li>
+        </ul>
+      </description>
+    </release>
     <release version="47.0" date="2024-09-16">
       <description>
         <p>Disk Usage Analyzer 47.0 comes with various changes to modernize the UI:</p>
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 6173040a8e33cd73a1bf785f9693f50c71fb5325..74ce7ebcf31e69908ce824cfedc915625bfa4146 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project(
   'baobab', ['vala', 'c'],
-  version: '47.0',
+  version: '48.alpha',
   license: 'GPL2+',
   meson_version: '>= 0.59.0',
 )