diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 66d9c880e0b0ea34190298582858f0517503e645..8244bad1e10675781564819569ee7d2a8e71449a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,34 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-10-24
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-11-07
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
+
+version 1.25 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-11-07
+
+* Fix extraction of empty directories with the -C option in effect.
+* Fix extraction of device nodes.
+* Make sure name matching occurs before eventual name transformation.
+
+Tar 1.24 changed the ordering of name matching and name transformation
+so that the former saw already transformed file names.  This made it
+impossible to match file names in certain cases.  It is fixed now.
+
+* Fix the behavior of tar -x --overwrite on hosts lacking O_NOFOLLOW.
+
+* Improve the testsuite.
+
+* Alternative decompression programs.
+
+If extraction from a compressed archive fails because the corresponding
+compression program is not installed and the following two conditions
+are met, tar retries extraction using an alternative decompressor:
+
+ 1. Another compression program supported by tar is able to handle this
+ compression format.
+ 2. The compression program was not explicitly requested in the command
+ line by the use of such options as -z, -j, etc.
+
+For example, if `compress' is not available, tar will try `gzip'. 
+
 
 version 1.24 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-10-24
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1de1ed3b4686d5795141fead454e7513cebcebe6..d112474ff9eb80ab81acefc37980812b6bd27177 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
 # 02110-1301, USA.
 
-AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.24], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.25], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/tar.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])