diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8cb2d56..6250238 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: V8
 Type: Package
 Title: Embedded JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine for R
-Version: 3.4.3
+Version: 3.5.0
 Authors@R: person("Jeroen", "Ooms", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "jeroen@berkeley.edu",
     comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4035-0289"))
 Description: An R interface to V8: Google's open source JavaScript and WebAssembly 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 67ee512..56277ac 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-3,4,3
- - Default to static libv8 on legacy Ubuntu distros that have libv8-3.14.5
+3.5.0
+ - On legacy systems which still have libv8 version 3.x we now try to download
+   a more recent static libv8. We plan to deprecate support for libv8 3.x, which
+   is now over 10 years old, and does not support ES6 (modern JavaScript).
 
 3.4.2
  - Add Windows binaries for ucrt targets