diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 351c82f3238e4299259ffd14490ed84897c931c9..a8a4c2585a42b7c772c918f31628cc04bb3d283a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,32 @@
+1.6.5
+=====
+- Bump autotools versions
+- Add .gitignore
+- Do not execute but only open shell scripts by default (bug #7596) (Harald Judt)
+- Fix typo in error message (Nick Schermer)
+- Improve keyboard navigation for thunar-tree-view (bug #4519) (Harald Judt)
+- Allow <ctrl> + middle click in shortcut and treeview panes (Harald Judt)
+- Set correct dialog window hint for progress dialog (bug #11467) (Matt Thirtytwo)
+- Refresh file info after getting it from cache (bug #11008) (Peter de Ridder)
+- Remove unused enum for signal handlers (bug #11493) (Matt Thirtytwo)
+- Simplify Makefile.am. Generated files are separated from typed source files (Matt Thirtytwo)
+- thunar-tpa: Install desktop file to $(datadir)/xfce4/panel/plugins (Robby Workman)
+- Fix anchor offset in xfce_dialog_show_help () function. (Olivier Duchateau)
+- Properly handle m4 stuff (Harald Judt)
+- TWP: Single-workspace-mode = TRUE is the default (Bug #11047) (Eric Koegel)
+- thunar-wallpaper: Do not use escaped filenames for xfconf (Harald Judt)
+- Use xfconf and handle xfdesktop's single workspace (Bug #11047) (Eric Koegel)
+- Revert "Workaround for crashes on RHEL5" (Andrzej)
+- Revert "Fallback to image surface, workaround for bug in Cairo/RENDER" (Andrzej)
+- Renaming a file from another file manager... (bug #11430) (Andrzej)
+- Make usage/free string more clear (bug #11345) (Harald Judt)
+- Make single middle click open files and folders (bug #10587) (Harald Judt)
+- Add a progressbar to the freespace indicator in the properties dialog (Harald Judt, Simon Steinbeiss)
+- Change resize style in thunar-wallpaper plugin (Thaddaeus Tintenfisch)
+- Add vim modeline. Remove obsolete '$Id$' line (Matt Thirtytwo)
+- Right click context menu with wrong icon (bug #10652) (Andrzej)
+- Translation updates
+
 1.6.4
 =====
 - make distcheck fix (reference docs linking error) (Andrzej)
diff --git a/README b/README
index b965352615e0314f3b8cd78718e614dfe5d5cce0..0503e14931356c069479935b7e0081e71714df18 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -11,16 +11,16 @@ Required packages
 Thunar depends on the following packages:
 
  - perl 5.6 or above
- - GTK+ 2.14.0 or above
- - GLib 2.18.0 or above
- - exo 0.5.1 or above
+ - GTK+ 2.24.0 or above
+ - GLib 2.30.0 or above
+ - exo 0.10.0 or above
  - intltool 0.30 or above
 
 Thunar can optionally use the following packages:
 
  - D-Bus 0.34 or above (strongly suggested)
  - libstartup-notification 0.4 or above
- - xfce4-panel 4.3.90 or above (for the trash applet)
+ - xfce4-panel 4.10.0 or above (for the trash applet)
  - xfconf-query
 
 
diff --git a/configure.ac.in b/configure.ac.in
index 592094f66152a5936fedcf6eac507b19904dca42..81004c1a0c0f91837ec77e2b4d11044b1b958756 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], [4])
+m4_define([thunar_version_micro], [5])
 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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