diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index ec1ae8357..41ebbf819 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 This document attempts to list user-visible changes and any major internal
 rearrangements of Notcurses.
 
-* 1.3.5 (not yet released)
+* 1.4.0 (not yet released)
   * `ncplane_content()` was added. It allows all non-null glyphs of a plane to
     be returned as a nul-terminated, heap-allocated string.
   * `ncreader` was added. This widget allows freeform input to be edited in a
diff --git a/tools/release.sh b/tools/release.sh
index 56f0283a2..bd0f4cde5 100755
--- a/tools/release.sh
+++ b/tools/release.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ usage() { echo "usage: `basename $0` oldversion newversion" ; }
 OLDVERSION="$1"
 VERSION="$2"
 
-vi CHANGELOG.md
+vi NEWS.md
 
 git clean -f -d -x
 BUMP="CMakeLists.txt doc/Doxyfile doc/FreeBSD-Makefile doc/man/man*/* doc/man/index.html python/setup.py rust/*/Cargo.toml rust/libnotcurses-sys/build.rs"