diff --git a/sm5/CHANGELOG b/sm5/CHANGELOG
index d880686daf8dd069c65d0c64978c77b79497f365..ecef6bb83da4ce3ec3257fe9352b093d9b486052 100644
--- a/sm5/CHANGELOG
+++ b/sm5/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 CHANGELOG for smartmontools
 
-$Id: CHANGELOG,v 1.654 2008/02/23 06:41:59 ballen4705 Exp $
+$Id: CHANGELOG,v 1.655 2008/02/24 20:16:31 ballen4705 Exp $
 
 The most recent version of this file is:
 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/CHANGELOG?view=markup
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ NOTES FOR FUTURE RELEASES: see TODO file.
 
 <DEVELOPERS: ADDITIONS TO THE CHANGE LOG GO JUST BELOW HERE, PLEASE>
 
+
+
+SMARTMONTOOLS STABLE RELEASE 5.38 2008/02/24
+
   [BA] Fix auto-offline support in FreeBSD.  Thanks to
        Cyrus Rahman <crahman@gmail.com> for the patch, and
        Eduard Martinescu for blessing it.
diff --git a/sm5/NEWS b/sm5/NEWS
index 1c78d87a0c9b146c70c66c3773b845e58ff316e9..059fc6a7310be59070ad1b04b7f2a5c5724cf071 100644
--- a/sm5/NEWS
+++ b/sm5/NEWS
@@ -1,10 +1,44 @@
 smartmontools NEWS
 ------------------
-CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.32 2006/12/20 20:39:25 chrfranke Exp $
+CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.33 2008/02/24 20:16:31 ballen4705 Exp $
 
 The most up-to-date version of this file is:
 http://smartmontools.cvs.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/sm5/NEWS?view=markup
 
+Date 2008-02-24
+Summary: smartmontools release 5.38 (STABLE)
+--------------------------------------------
+This is a stable release of smartmontools.  In addition to changes
+below, it includes:
+
+ - Fixed auto-offline support in FreeBSD
+ - SAT device type + SCSI generic devices work properly with smartd under Linux
+ - Many additions to drive database
+ - More portable autogen/autoconf/automake script set
+ - Additional Windows IOCTL route to access SMART data
+ - Some ATA-8 updates
+ - Smoother CCISS compilation support in Linux
+ - Dragonfly support
+ - Fixed some ATA identity byte swap problems on big endian CPUs
+ - Added support for the QNX operating system
+ - No-fork option added to smartd
+ - Improved device scanning and drive type recognition in Windows
+ - 3ware support for controllers with more disks (32 max)
+ - Improved Windows installer
+ - Improved SMART Attribute list and descriptions
+ - Fix to smartctl return codes
+ - Fix to scheduled tests on Highpoint RAID controllers
+ - New samsung firmware bug workaround option
+ - Auto-offline and Auto-save fixed in Linux + libata
+ - Solaris: better SCSI support
+ - Fixed and improvements to CCISS support
+ - More options for SCSI temperature monitoring and history
+ - Additional command line options for selective self-tests
+ - Compilation fixes for various platforms.
+
+See CHANGELOG for more details, or smartmontools CVS for still further
+details.
+
 Date 2006-12-20
 Summary: smartmontools release 5.37 (UNSTABLE/EXPERIMENTAL)
 -----------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/sm5/configure.in b/sm5/configure.in
index 148121efc69f3ab039805405f2a5f29b69446cae..08f8aaae82cce4d69820e8320123a1989b7f792e 100644
--- a/sm5/configure.in
+++ b/sm5/configure.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# $Id: configure.in,v 1.129 2007/12/20 17:34:18 chrfranke Exp $
+# $Id: configure.in,v 1.130 2008/02/24 20:16:31 ballen4705 Exp $
 #
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_PREREQ(2.50)
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ AC_INIT(smartmontools, 5.38, smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net)
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(smartctl.cpp)
 
 smartmontools_configure_date=`date -u +"%Y/%m/%d %T %Z"`
-smartmontools_cvs_tag=`echo '$Id: configure.in,v 1.129 2007/12/20 17:34:18 chrfranke Exp $'`
-smartmontools_release_date=2006/12/20
-smartmontools_release_time="20:37:59 UTC"
+smartmontools_cvs_tag=`echo '$Id: configure.in,v 1.130 2008/02/24 20:16:31 ballen4705 Exp $'`
+smartmontools_release_date=2008/02/24
+smartmontools_release_time="20:16:09 GMT"
 
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SMARTMONTOOLS_CONFIGURE_ARGS, "$ac_configure_args",            [smartmontools Configure Arguments])
 AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(SMARTMONTOOLS_CONFIGURE_DATE, "$smartmontools_configure_date", [smartmontools Configure Date])