diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b4579c9..01dbc8d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+New in version 0.54.0
+=====================
+* support non-C-contiguous ndarrays (#37)
+* fix a bug where a volume only written via hyperslab API would be deleted on `closeVolume` (#32)
+* remove old conditional code to support Python 2 (not supported since 0.53)
+* substantial cleanup of the tests; new tests for non-contiguous arrays
+* various minor code improvements
+
 New in version 0.53.3
 =====================
 * bugfix where valid range would be set incorrectly for label files (pyminc/pull/31)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e14b493..a035437 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(name='pyminc',
-      version = '0.53.3',
+      version = '0.54',
       description = "Python interface to libminc",
       url = "https://github.com/Mouse-Imaging-Centre/pyminc",
       author = "Jason Lerch",