diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,46 @@
+# PipeWire 1.6.8 (2026-07-09)
+
+This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous
+1.6.x releases.
+
+## Highlights
+  - Fix a data race in JACK that could cause lost MIDI events in ardour.
+  - Fix some unbounded memory allocations.
+  - Various small fixes.
+
+
+## PipeWire
+  - Avoid some graph recalcs, which fixes a bug when suspending a node
+    while it is active.
+
+## Modules
+  - Do Content-Length and allocation check in RAOP to avoid OOM errors.
+  - Fix a potential memory leak in the error path of client-node. (#5348)
+
+## SPA
+  - Fix filter-graph dynamic graph updates.
+  - Avoid 100% when unplugging a card.
+  - Fix filter-graph volumes when the filter is loaded inside a node with
+    hardware volume. (#5344)
+  - Add normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter. (#5322)
+
+## Bluetooth
+  - Fix a potential leak when transport fails to start.
+
+## Pulse-server
+  - Avoid stack exhaustion via unbounded alloca.
+
+## JACK
+  - Fix a data race in jack_port_get_buffer() when called from concurrent
+    threads, like in ardour. (#5324)
+
+## GStreamer
+  - Skip invalid crop metadata.
+  - Avoid crash because metadata listener was registered twice.
+
+
+Older versions:
+
 # PipeWire 1.6.7 (2026-06-18)
 
 This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous
@@ -34,9 +77,6 @@ This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous
 ## Misc
   - Make sure we don't deal with uninitialized spa_dict.
 
-
-Older versions:
-
 # PipeWire 1.6.6 (2026-05-26)
 
 This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('pipewire', ['c' ],
-  version : '1.6.7',
+  version : '1.6.8',
   license : [ 'MIT', 'LGPL-2.1-or-later', 'GPL-2.0-only' ],
   meson_version : '>= 0.61.1',
   default_options : [ 'warning_level=3',