diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ce123f2a5..7ca4f75d4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 10.3.0
+Thursday, February 11, 2025
+====================================
+
+- Vastly improved “AAT” shaping performance. LucidaGrande benchmark-shape
+  before: 14.6ms after: 5.9ms.
+- Improved OpenType shaping performance (kerning / ligature), at the expense of
+  ~1kb per face allocated cache memory. Roboto-Regular benchmark-shape before:
+  10.3ms after: 9.4ms.
+- Improved “COLRv1” benchmark-font paint performance. Before: 7.85ms after
+  4.85ms.
+- Don’t apply glyph substitutions in “morx” table of a font with known broken
+  “morx” table (AALMAGHRIBI.ttf font).
+- Update IANA and OT language registries.
+- Various documentation updates.
+- Various build improvements, and test speed-ups.
+- The “hb_face_reference_blob()” API now works for faces created with
+  “hb_face_create_for_tables()” if the face sets “get_table_tags” callback.
+  This constructs a new face blob from individual table blobs.
+- Various fixes to how “trak” table is handled to bring it closer to Core Text
+  behaviour. Particularly, the tracking values for sizes not explicitly set in
+  the table are now properly interpolated, and the tracking is applied to glyph
+  advances when they are returned by ot-font functions, instead of applying
+  them during shaping. The “trak” pseudo OpenType feature that could be used to
+  disable “trak” table application have been dropped.
+- Core Text font functions now support non-BMP code points.
+- The drawing algorithm used by hb-draw for “glyf” table now match the
+  algorithm used by FreeType and Core Text.
+- The “hb_coretext_font_create()” API now copy font variations from Core Text
+  font to the created HarfBuzz font.
+- Add an API to get the feature tags enabled on a given shape-plan after
+  executing it, which can be used to applications to show in the UI what
+  features are applied by default (which can vary based on the font, the
+  script, the language, and the direction set on the buffer).
+- Add APIs to created HarfBuzz font from DirectWrite font, and copy the font
+  variations.
+
+- New API:
++hb_directwrite_font_create()
++hb_directwrite_font_get_dw_font()
++hb_ot_shape_plan_get_feature_tags()
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 10.2.0
 Saturday, January 11, 2025
 ====================================
diff --git a/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml b/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
index f935cea69..3cddd64da 100644
--- a/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
+++ b/docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@
       <index id="api-index-full"><title>API Index</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-full.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="deprecated-api-index"><title>Index of deprecated API</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-deprecated.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
 
+      <index id="api-index-10-3-0"><title>Index of new symbols in 10.3.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-10.3.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-10-2-0"><title>Index of new symbols in 10.2.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-10.2.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-10-1-0"><title>Index of new symbols in 10.1.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-10.1.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
       <index id="api-index-10-0-0"><title>Index of new symbols in 10.0.0</title><xi:include href="xml/api-index-10.0.0.xml"><xi:fallback /></xi:include></index>
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 863f0a860..9a8222353 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('harfbuzz', 'c', 'cpp',
   meson_version: '>= 0.55.0',
-  version: '10.2.0',
+  version: '10.3.0',
   default_options: [
     'cpp_eh=none',          # Just to support msvc, we are passing -fno-exceptions also anyway
     # 'cpp_rtti=false',     # Do NOT enable, wraps inherit it and ICU needs RTTI
diff --git a/src/hb-directwrite.cc b/src/hb-directwrite.cc
index 5e4722e6c..b9d182aaa 100644
--- a/src/hb-directwrite.cc
+++ b/src/hb-directwrite.cc
@@ -891,7 +891,7 @@ hb_directwrite_face_get_font_face (hb_face_t *face)
  *
  * Return value: #hb_font_t object corresponding to the given input
  *
- * XSince: REPLACEME
+ * Since: 10.3.0
  **/
 hb_font_t *
 hb_directwrite_font_create (IDWriteFont *dw_font)
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ done:
 *
 * Return value: DirectWrite IDWriteFont object corresponding to the given input
 *
-* XSince: REPLACEME
+* Since: 10.3.0
 **/
 IDWriteFont *
 hb_directwrite_font_get_dw_font (hb_font_t *font)
diff --git a/src/hb-ot-shape.cc b/src/hb-ot-shape.cc
index 2ff337799..c9defc49a 100644
--- a/src/hb-ot-shape.cc
+++ b/src/hb-ot-shape.cc
@@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ hb_ot_shape_plan_collect_lookups (hb_shape_plan_t *shape_plan,
  *
  * Return value: Total number of feature tagss.
  *
- * XSince: REPLACEME
+ * Since: 10.3.0
  */
 unsigned int
 hb_ot_shape_plan_get_feature_tags (hb_shape_plan_t *shape_plan,
diff --git a/src/hb-version.h b/src/hb-version.h
index 8e767cba2..cea184dd3 100644
--- a/src/hb-version.h
+++ b/src/hb-version.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ HB_BEGIN_DECLS
  *
  * The minor component of the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 2
+#define HB_VERSION_MINOR 3
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_MICRO:
  *
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ HB_BEGIN_DECLS
  *
  * A string literal containing the library version available at compile-time.
  */
-#define HB_VERSION_STRING "10.2.0"
+#define HB_VERSION_STRING "10.3.0"
 
 /**
  * HB_VERSION_ATLEAST: