diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f906687c..0f82a5dd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 NEWS for OpenSC -- History of user visible changes
 
-# New in 0.22.0; 2021-06-XX
+# New in 0.22.0; 2021-08-10
 ## General improvements
  * Use standard paths for file cache on Linux (#2148) and OSX (#2214)
  * Various issues of memory/buffer handling in legacy drivers mostly reported by oss-fuzz and coverity (tcos, oberthur, isoapplet, iasecc, westcos, gpk, flex, dnie, mcrd, authentic, belpic)
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ NEWS for OpenSC -- History of user visible changes
  * Support for gcc11 and its new strict aliasing rules (#2241, #2260)
  * Initial support for building with OpenSSL 3.0 (#2343)
  * pkcs15-tool: Write data objects in binary mode (#2324)
+ * Avoid limited size of log messages (#2352)
 ## PKCS#11
  * Support for ECDSA verification (#2211)
  * Support for ECDSA with different SHA hashes (#2190)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 4695dd62..5e2e604c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ define([PRODUCT_URL], [https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC])
 define([PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR], [0])
 define([PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR], [22])
 define([PACKAGE_VERSION_FIX], [0])
-define([PACKAGE_SUFFIX], [-rc2])
+define([PACKAGE_SUFFIX], [])
 
 define([VS_FF_LEGAL_COPYRIGHT], [OpenSC Project])
 define([VS_FF_LEGAL_COMPANY_NAME], [OpenSC Project])
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ OPENSC_VS_FF_PRODUCT_URL="VS_FF_PRODUCT_URL"
 #   (Oldest interface changed/removed:  OLDEST++)
 #   (Interfaces added:                  CURRENT++, REVISION=0)
 OPENSC_LT_CURRENT="8"
-OPENSC_LT_OLDEST="7"
+OPENSC_LT_OLDEST="8"
 OPENSC_LT_REVISION="0"
 OPENSC_LT_AGE="0"
 OPENSC_LT_AGE="$((${OPENSC_LT_CURRENT}-${OPENSC_LT_OLDEST}))"