diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 2c1297ed..ea4f5b32 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,55 @@
-WirePlumber 0.4.8
+WirePlumber 0.4.9
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
+Fixes:
+
+  - restore-stream no longer crashes if properties for it are not present
+    in the config (#190)
+
+  - spa-json no longer crashes on non-x86 architectures
+
+  - Fixed a potential crash in the bluetooth auto-switch module (#193)
+
+  - Fixed a race condition that would cause Zoom desktop audio sharing to fail
+    (#197)
+
+  - Surround sound in some games is now exposed properly (pipewire#876)
+
+  - Fixed a race condition that would cause the default source & sink to not
+    be set at startup
+
+  - policy-node now supports the 'target.object' key on streams and metadata
+
+  - Multiple fixes in policy-node that make the logic in some cases behave
+    more like PulseAudio (regarding nodes with the dont-reconnect property
+    and regarding following the default source/sink)
+
+  - Fixed a bug with parsing unquoted strings in spa-json
+
+Misc:
+
+  - The policy now supports configuring "persistent" device profiles. If a
+    device is *manually* set to one of these profiles, then it will not be
+    auto-switched to another profile automatically under any circumstances
+    (#138, #204)
+
+  - The device-activation module was re-written in lua
+
+  - Brave, Edge, Vivaldi and Telegram were added in the bluetooth auto-switch
+    applications list
+
+  - ALSA nodes now use the PCM name to populate node.nick, which is useful
+    at least on HDA cards using UCM, where all outputs (analog, hdmi, etc)
+    are exposesd as nodes on a single profile
+
+  - An icon name is now set on the properties of bluetooth devices
+
+Past releases
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+WirePlumber 0.4.8
+.................
+
 Highlights:
 
   - Added bluetooth profile auto-switching support. Bluetooth headsets will now
@@ -46,9 +95,6 @@ Misc:
   - The route-settings-api module was dropped in favor of dealing with json
     natively in Lua, now that the API exists
 
-Past releases
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
 WirePlumber 0.4.7
 .................
 
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index e4323dc8..14ea2745 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('wireplumber', ['c'],
-  version : '0.4.8',
+  version : '0.4.9',
   license : 'MIT',
   meson_version : '>= 0.56.0',
   default_options : [
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ gmodule_dep = dependency('gmodule-2.0', version : glib_req_version)
 gio_dep = dependency('gio-2.0', version : glib_req_version)
 giounix_dep = dependency('gio-unix-2.0', version : glib_req_version)
 spa_dep = dependency('libspa-0.2', version: '>= 0.2')
-pipewire_dep = dependency('libpipewire-0.3', version: '>= 0.3.45')
+pipewire_dep = dependency('libpipewire-0.3', version: '>= 0.3.48')
 mathlib = cc.find_library('m')
 threads_dep = dependency('threads')