diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 95705c2..fe4e66f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+Version 1.0.0 (Beta 5)
+=============
+
+libmdb:
+
+* Fix incorrect reading of double values #339 #342
+* Fix accidental reads of non-index data #335 #343
+* New `mdb_set_repid_fmt()` for setting the format of Rep IDs (UUIDs)  #344
+
+SQL:
+
+* Improved support for comparing floating-point values to integers
+* Improved support for floating point literals with no fractional digits (e.g. "3.")
+* Add support for querying Rep IDs
+
+ODBC:
+
+* Implement `SQLFetchW` in the Unicode driver #347 #348
+
 Version 1.0.0 (Beta 4)
 =============
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a8762bd..325050d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
-AC_INIT([mdbtools],[1.0.0-beta4],[https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/issues],[],[https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools])
+AC_INIT([mdbtools],[1.0.0-beta5],[https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/issues],[],[https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/extras/mdb-dump.c)