diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 843aefe7e3..d1fbab1488 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -587,6 +587,37 @@ CHANGES WITH 247 in spe:
         * "systemctl edit" has been updated to show the original effective unit
           contents in commented form in the text editor.
 
+        Contributions from: Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, afg, Alec Moskvin, Alyssa
+        Ross, Amitanand.Chikorde, Andrew Hangsleben, Anita Zhang, Ansgar
+        Burchardt, Arian van Putten, Aurelien Jarno, Axel Rasmussen, bauen1,
+        Beniamino Galvani, Benjamin Berg, Bjørn Mork, brainrom, Chandradeep
+        Dey, Charles Lee, Chris Down, Christian Göttsche, Clemens Gruber, Daan
+        De Meyer, Daniele Medri, Daniel Mack, Dan Streetman, David Tardon,
+        Dimitri John Ledkov, Dmitry Borodaenko, Elisei Roca, ErrantSpore,
+        Etienne Doms, Fabrice Fontaine, fangxiuning, Felix Riemann, Florian
+        Klink, Franck Bui, Frantisek Sumsal, George Rawlinson, germanztz,
+        Gibeom Gwon, Glen Whitney, Gogo Gogsi, Göran Uddeborg, Grant Mathews,
+        Hans de Goede, Hans Ulrich Niedermann, Haochen Tong, Harald Seiler,
+        huangyong, Hubert Kario, Ikey Doherty, Jan Chren, Jan Schlüter, Jérémy
+        Nouhaud, Joerg Behrmann, Jonathan Lebon, Juergen Hoetzel, Julien
+        Humbert, Kai-Chuan Hsieh, Kairui Song, Kamil Dudka, Kir Kolyshkin, Kyle
+        Huey, Kyle Russell, Lennart Poettering, lichangze, Luca Boccassi, Lucas
+        Werkmeister, Marc Kleine-Budde, Marco Wang, Marti Raudsepp,
+        masmullin2000, Máté Pozsgay, Matt Fenwick, Michael Biebl, Michael
+        Scherer, Michal Koutný, Michal Sekletár, Michal Suchanek, Mikael
+        Szreder, Milo Casagrande, mirabilos, Mitsuha_QuQ, mog422, Nazar
+        Vinnichuk, Nicholas Narsing, Nicolas Fella, Njibhu, nl6720, Oğuz Ersen,
+        Olivier Le Moal, Ondrej Kozina, Pass Automated Testing Suite, Pedro
+        Ruiz, Peter Hutterer, Phaedrus Leeds, PhoenixDiscord, Piotr Drąg, Plan
+        C, Renaud Métrich, Robert Marko, Ronan Pigott, Roy Chen (陳彥廷),
+        RussianNeuroMancer, Samanta Navarro, Samuel BF, scootergrisen, Steve
+        Dodd, Susant Sahani, Tobias Hunger, Tobias Kaufmann, Topi Miettinen,
+        Vito Caputo, Weblate, Wen Yang, williamvds, Yuri Chornoivan, Yu
+        Watanabe, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Zmicer Turok, Дамјан
+        Георгиевски
+
+        – ???, 2020-10-XX
+
 CHANGES WITH 246:
 
         * The service manager gained basic support for cgroup v2 freezer. Units
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 9c915323c4..e68b6d81c5 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+
 
 project('systemd', 'c',
-        version : '246',
+        version : '247',
         license : 'LGPLv2+',
         default_options: [
                 'c_std=gnu99',
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ project('systemd', 'c',
         meson_version : '>= 0.46',
        )
 
-libsystemd_version = '0.29.0'
+libsystemd_version = '0.30.0'
 libudev_version = '1.7.0'
 
 # We need the same data in two different formats, ugh!