diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f9c9aaf448af4a164687233a3ad19cf2f7c73d7e..93fff54d3fa359989d01952746ff3fa30c947101 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+Overview of changes in 3.34.0
+=============================
+
+This release marks the first stable release after a invasive rewrite of Music
+internals and may still be rough around the edges. Regressions and known issues
+are kept track of in #299, further issue reports are welcome.
+
+* A flatpak issue with cover art retrieval was fixed
+
+Thanks to our contributors this release:
+ Jean Felder
+
+Tranlations updated:
+ Japanese
+ Italian
+
 Overview of changes in 3.33.92
 ==============================
 
diff --git a/data/ui/AboutDialog.ui.in b/data/ui/AboutDialog.ui.in
index 2e50bc5eefaef3efd846992a31a0fec111553e0b..fa6472817fd8baf035ca2ed0cc3cc5319896be95 100644
--- a/data/ui/AboutDialog.ui.in
+++ b/data/ui/AboutDialog.ui.in
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ Osman Karagöz
 Petr Kovář
 Piotr Drąg
 Rafael Fontenelle
+Ryuta Fujii
 Rūdolfs Mazurs
 Sabri Ünal
 Sebastian Rasmussen
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 03489e7a884be6f0d2a3464c800f341e4b7b732f..b0261a5e9e0001419d1187545737cf8f41a58c8f 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gnome-music',
-    version: '3.33.92',
+    version: '3.34.0',
     meson_version: '>= 0.46.0'
 )