diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8b488476..8f508910 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 GNU make NEWS                                               -*-indented-text-*-
   History of user-visible changes.
-  10 June 2016
+  26 August 2019
 
 See the end of this file for copyrights and conditions.
 
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ which is contained in this distribution as the file doc/make.texi.
 See the README file and the GNU make manual for instructions for
 reporting bugs.
 
-Version 4.2.90 (24 Jun 2016)
+Version 4.2.90 (26 Aug 2019)
 
 A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here: