diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c892cefa5c4c07bfb1ef72d7d11b58c251649778..21d1c9bf159c53ee17c63b63401f672a143a427a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+1.6.6
+=====
+- Removed GNU extension -i from sed (Peter de Ridder)
+- Bump default size of file properties dialog a bit (Harald Judt)
+- Respect the "View new folders using" preference (bug #11606) (Harald Judt)
+- Improve check for shell scripts and add hidden option for bug #7596 (Harald Judt)
+- Fix some GTK_STOCK icon usages resulting in missing icons (bug #11608) (Jani Välimaa)
+- plugins/thunar-wallpaper: Fix icon (Jani Välimaa)
+- Fix icon name for folders and a memory leak (bug #11608) (Harald Judt)
+- Also query for network location icons (Nick Schermer)
+- Don't use deprecated function (Nick Schermer)
+- Secure threading in the idle thumbnail loading (Nick Schermer)
+- Sidepane treeview: Do not switch folder when clicking a row expander (Harald Judt)
+- Fix cppcheck possible errors/warnings (Harald Judt)
+- Hide template file extensions in context menu (bug #11571) (Thaddaeus Tintenfisch)
+- thunar-wallpaper: Fix translation in applications other than thunar (Harald Judt)
+- thunar-wallpaper: Check if file is really an image (bug #11565) (Thaddaeus Tintenfisch)
+- Update another copyright string (Harald Judt)
+- Fix endless rename loop in case of error on the properties dialog (bug #11557) (Harald Judt)
+- Translation updates: Asturian, Bulgarian, Finnish, French, German,
+  Norwegian Bokmål, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish
+
 1.6.5
 =====
 - Bump autotools versions
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index a692ccc1461e91ee315a6c5a66898fa381f88018..f96441435c79dae693cf667d8576488bf99c815b 100644
--- a/configure.ac.in
+++ b/configure.ac.in
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ m4_define([thunarx_verinfo], [0:0:0])
 m4_define([thunarx_version_api], [2])
 m4_define([thunar_version_major], [1])
 m4_define([thunar_version_minor], [6])
-m4_define([thunar_version_micro], [5])
+m4_define([thunar_version_micro], [6])
 m4_define([thunar_version_nano], [])
 m4_define([thunar_version_build], [@REVISION@])
-m4_define([thunar_version_tag], [git])
+m4_define([thunar_version_tag], [])
 m4_define([thunar_version], [thunar_version_major().thunar_version_minor().thunar_version_micro()ifelse(thunar_version_nano(), [], [], [.thunar_version_nano()])ifelse(thunar_version_tag(), [git], [thunar_version_tag()-thunar_version_build()], [thunar_version_tag()])])
 
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