diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8e4efa490..0fc557291 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,21 +1,39 @@
-icewm -- history of user-visible changes.  2017-07-28
 
-Release icewm-1.4.1.6 released 2017-07-28
------------------------------------------
+Release icewm-1.4.2 released 2017-07-30
+---------------------------------------
 
 git shortlog -e -n -w80,6,8 1.4.1...HEAD
 
-Bert Gijsbers <gijsbers@science.uva.nl> (3):
+Brian Bidulock <bidulock@openss7.org> (10):
+      Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/icewm-1-3-BRANCH' into
+        icewm-1-4-BRANCH
+      update po files
+      update AUTHORS file
+      generate more news
+      update NEWS file
+      icewm-1-4-BRANCH is now the default
+      partially address issue #146
+      better fix for issue #146
+      final tweak for #146
+      Merge branch 'icewm-1-4-BRANCH' of github.com:bbidulock/icewm into
+        icewm-1-4-BRANCH
+
+Bert Gijsbers <gijsbers@science.uva.nl> (5):
       Omit -b in git checkout icewm-1-4-BRANCH.
       Specify output with -o icewm.html.
       Update ChangeLog to 1.4.1 and remove all changes for the 1.3.12 release
         and older.
+      New function copyPixmaps adds more defaults for missing pixmaps. When some
+        pixmaps are missing then they are copied from others. This restores
+        backward compatibility in issue #144.
+      Always show icon in the top left corner of a window in issue #144.
 
-Brian Bidulock <bidulock@openss7.org> (3):
-      Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/icewm-1-3-BRANCH' into
-        icewm-1-4-BRANCH
-      update po files
-      update AUTHORS file
+Brian Bidulock <bidulock@openss7.com> (1):
+      Merge pull request #150 from
+        Code7R/feature/increase_theme_menu_collapsing_threshold
+
+Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> (1):
+      Increased the trigger value for the theme menu nesting algorithm
 
 
 Release icewm-1.4.1 released 2017-07-28
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8a62c5df6..e5ccb80c4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-[icewm -- read me first file.  2017-07-27]: #
+[icewm -- read me first file.  2017-07-30]: #
 
 Ice Window Manager (IceWM)
 ==========================
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ list, and various other GitHub forks.
 Release
 -------
 
-This is the icewm-1.4.1 package, released under LGPL license 2017-07-24.
+This is the icewm-1.4.2 package, released under LGPL license 2017-07-24.
 This release as well as future versions here, can all be obtained from
 [GitHub][1] using a command such as:
 
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Website][14] or from the [online manual][16].
 
 Unfortunately the documentation is for version 1.2.27 and is incomplete
 at that; however, it is for the most part usable.
-The good news is that the `icewm(1)` manual page for version 1.4.1
+The good news is that the `icewm(1)` manual page for version 1.4.2
 is complete and fully up-to-date.
 
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 949a49ca6..fe86f814d 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 PACKAGE=icewm
-VERSION=1.4.1
+VERSION=1.4.2
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f9d438a7a..fe9176ea8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([icewm],[1.4.1.10],[https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues])
-AC_REVISION([1.4.1.10])
+AC_INIT([icewm],[1.4.2],[https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues])
+AC_REVISION([1.4.2])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/ysmapp.cc])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([scripts])
 AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 
-DATE='2017-07-28'
+DATE='2017-07-30'
 AC_SUBST([DATE])
 
 APPLICATIONS='icewm icewm-session icesh icewmhint icewmbg icewmtray'
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ LT_LANG([C++])
 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 AC_SUBST([LIBTOOL_DEPS])
 
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19.8])
+AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19.2])
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([i18n],