diff --git a/IDMETA b/IDMETA
index 9af12d21..e6ca2b30 100755
--- a/IDMETA
+++ b/IDMETA
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 DEBIAN_DIST="bullseye buster stretch"
 UBUNTU_DIST="jammy focal bionic xenial trusty"
 CENTOS_DIST="centos7 centos8"
-VERSION=5.33.0
+VERSION=5.34.0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5d2ef0af..b791c9ba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+--- 5.34.0 2023/01/12
+
+Fixes to Solr response decoding.
+
+Fix compilation with Visual Studio Failed for YAZ 5.33.0.
+
+JSON pretty-printed same way as jq for yaz-json-parse and yaz-marcdump
+utilities.
+
 --- 5.33.0 2022/12/14
 
 yaz-marcdump: SAX based MARCXML parsing. This is about 3 times faster